Category: Suffering and Grief
“Suffering and Grief” is a series of articles that speak to us in our adversities. They show us how Christian values and biblical wisdom make a world of difference in our life. This is especially true when everything seems to go wrong. When grief takes over your heart, when your spirit is broken within you, you need the soothing balm of the Word of God.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalm 147:3)
Walking Through the Valleys
As I walked through the valleys of abuse, unfairness, pain, depression, loss and grief in my own life, nothing has been more important to me than remembering the Lord’s promises and listening to the words of comfort that He shares with us in His word. Some of them have come…
A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day. It is a day that carries great meaning for many people, but also a day some seem to ignore, as if it was a secondary holiday of little importance. While many celebrate it, and spend it volunteering to help others, some keep working…
A Christmas Hope
It’s Christmas … a time traditionally connected with celebrations and cheers. This time, however, it’s different — quite different. So many families have empty places at their tables, a sad reminder of loved ones lost. Others fear that soon they may not even have a table to gather around any…
What the World Needs Now
In the mid 1960s a very plaintive song was written, pleading with God for more love for everyone in the world. The title of the song was, What the World Needs Now is Love. It decried the many problems of the day as more than enough to last for all…
A Message of Hope
Bewildered? Feeling lost, isolated and alone? If you feel this way, keep reading, for there is hope! If your life is full of uncertainty and the path ahead of you is shrouded in fog and mist, you are not alone. Perhaps, like many, you cannot see any recognizable landmarks. The…
Stress Management
Stress — in many ways an unavoidable effect of living — could be the very thing that is slowly killing you. We hear about it all the time, and we experience its detrimental effects. In some cases we may even be unknowingly looking for it. Yet, few really understand it,…
The Problem of Evil
Evil is a daily reality. Our suffering, as well as the suffering of others, vividly marks its presence in our world. In any given day, every newspaper contains many examples of evil and its painful consequences. Entire religious systems have come from human attempts to explain the presence of evil…
Where Was God?
It was all there in her eyes, together with hundreds of questions only a little girl like her could ask. It was forever stopped in time, as she glanced at the camera on her very last walk. Buchenwald, Dachau, Auschwitz. It was all there. Sinister images of brick buildings and…
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