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Category Archives: Comfort
Two great Duets!
Where we find God This Too Shall Pass Be blessed!
Posted in Comfort, Encouragement, God, Loss, Questioning God, Sadness, Seeing God, Seeking God, Walking with God, Wisdom
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Freedom from a cynical and sarcastic life
A powerful forgiveness story. Continue reading
Contentment and the presence of God
The reach of God’s presence. Continue reading
Posted in Comfort, discouraged, Encouragement, Fellowship, God, God as Potter, God's Heart, God's Love, God's Protection, Seeing God, Seeking God, Walking with God
Tagged Contentment, God with us
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Is grace transforming?
Mercy is not effectively received unless it is shown, for God’s mercy transforms. If God’s mercy does not take root in the heart, it is not experienced. Forgiveness not shown is forgiveness not known. Continue reading
Communicating with the dead
The agony of losing loved ones and not hearing their voices can be excruciating. We miss them deeply and long to see them and be with them again. Continue reading
Posted in Comfort, Death, Fear of death, Grieving, Loss
Tagged Astrology, communicating with the dead, Diviners, Mediums, Necromancers, Ouija boards, Psychics, Séances, Sorcery, Spiritist, Witchcraft, Witches
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Abundant life includes pain and struggle
It sometimes doesn’t feel good to be a Christian on the straight and narrow. Continue reading
Posted in Christian life, Christianity, Comfort, Disciple-making, Discipleship, Discipline, discouraged, Following Christ, Sanctification, Suffering, Trials, Wisdom
Tagged Discipleship, Hardships, Suffering, triaals
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Get off the guilt trip
It’s possible to hurt ourselves and others when we don’t deal constructively with guilt in a grace-based, future-oriented way. Continue reading
When forgotten and deserted
It hurts to be forgotten and deserted. But when faced with such experiences, we only multiply our pain when we choose… Continue reading
Posted in Bitterness, Comfort, Despair, Forgiveness, Resentment, Suffering, Trials
Tagged abandoned, deserted, forgotten, rejected by friends
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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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