For the hurting
“If you ask, ‘Why is this happening?’ no light may come, but if you ask, ‘How am I to glorify God now?’ there will always be an answer.”--J.I. PACKER
“If you ask, ‘Why is this happening?’ no light may come, but if you ask, ‘How am I to glorify God now?’ there will always be an answer.”--J.I. PACKER
It's more pain to do nothing than something.George Herbert, "Proverbs" in The Complete English Works, 282 Two thoughts: We hate feeling helpless. Especially if someone…
Grief and sorrow teach how to mark the Word. No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the cross.Martin Luther, The Table Talk…
C.S. Lewis is a compassionate writer. He remembers his unhappy childhood well enough to engage his readers (whatever their age) with impressive empathy. I wrote…
When I was a kid, our church had a scripture memory program for children. Each week we'd memorize our verses and earn prizes. If we…
During college, my summer job was to work on an assembly line building kitchen cabinets. I was on the "base" line, which meant we built…
One of my favorite Christmas songs is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." It's based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Christmas Bells." I love…
Nicholas Wolterstorff's twenty-four year old son died in a climbing accident. He writes: "The worst days now are holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, birthdays, weddings,…
"Then to cheer himself up he took out from its case on the dresser a strange little flute that looked as if it were made…
Much of the global Christian church is currently commemorating the dead. Death is a thief. Christianity states that it is one of the Great Enemies…