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Category Archives: Suffering
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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God’s dispositional will
This dimension of God’s will reveals that God is not inwardly disposed to or delighted by… Continue reading
Where can we find security and safety?
When you feel vulnerable or anxious, or when you feel misunderstood or misrepresented… Continue reading
Posted in Comfort, Faith, feeling hopeless, God, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, Hope?, Suffering, Trials, Weather, Wisdom
Tagged afraid, Anxiety, Fear, feeling vulnerable, security needed, Worry
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Some worship their past and their pain
Their pain becomes a temple ‘round itself, and they become devotees of anguish. Continue reading
Posted in Despair, Pain, Suffering, Wisdom
Tagged dealing with loss, dealing with pain, God and suffering
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Evil doesn’t make sense
We grieve. We weep. We lament. We protest. We scream in pain and anger. We cry out, “How long must this kind of thing go on?” Continue reading
Posted in Evil in the world, Evil One, God's power, Mad at God, Problem of evil, Suffering, Wisdom
Tagged Problem of evil, why so much suffering?
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My first funeral (a suicide)
There was standing room only at the funeral parlor as I faced some rather austere men and women dressed in the old black garb common to conservative Mennonites. Continue reading
Are you a wise and discerning person?
When I began ministry many years ago, a scene out of the life of Solomon greatly influenced me and became my prayer. Continue reading
Blessed are the persecuted?
Here are people declared by our Lord to be “blessed” when they are insulted, persecuted and falsely maligned with all kinds of evil against them. How unusual for them to be commanded to, “Rejoice and be glad!”
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Posted in Blessed by God, blessing, Christian worldview, Christianity, D. A. Carson, Disciple-making, Evil in the world, False accusation, Persecuted, Sermon on the Mount, Suffering, Teaching of Jesus, Trials, Wisdom
Tagged blessed are the persecuted, Persecuted, Sermon on the Mount, Suffering, Trials
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Transformed pain…
Let God transform your pain so you can become a transformer of pain for others. Continue reading
God’s heart toward a broken world
How does a sovereign, all-powerful God relate to a broken fallen world filled with so much evil, suffering and sadness?
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