God’s Purposes in Pruning Us
God uses suffering and pain in the lives of his children to prune us and refine us.
Tag: Hope
A Second Childhood Dies: Mourning and Weeping over the Loss of Children Connected to Herod’s Massacre
There are many hopes and dreams built into being a parent, and, yet, when we lose a child, these hopes and dreams are suddenly taken away from us.
The Denial of Death and the Paradoxes we must Face
While our secular age may scoff at the prospect of an empty tomb, it will find no cure from the ills that death bring apart from that empty tomb.
Death Should Feed our Eternal Hope in Christ
Our impending deaths should inform and feed our eternal hope in Jesus Christ, and should fuel our gradual release from the cares, concerns, and hopes of this world
Mourning Our Departed Loved Ones with Hope
Do we grieve death as those who have hope?
“Entrusting Our Difficulties to God”-Sermon Notes on 1 Peter 3:8-12 from July 14, 2024
“See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all” (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
Hope and Strength in the Midst of Sin and Failure
When you have sinned and failed God again, where do you turn? Where do you go? To whom do you look? What do you do in those moments of great brokenness, guilt, and shame? Also, how do you keep walking with God, everyday, knowing that you will fail Him again and again?
My Lament Before God
A lament is a complaint or a grievance that one expresses before God. The Bible is full of lamentations. You can, of course, look at the book of Lamentations to find a lament, or you can look at the Psalms as well that has a whole host of them. Recently I was reading Isaiah 38, Read more about My Lament Before God[…]