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Tag Archives: Loss
An excellet article!
I’ve learned a lot about grief. I have seen how it attacks meaning and motivation. Grief creeps up and seizes a moment, an hour, an afternoon. I think it’s going to be like this for a while. Continue reading
Posted in Church Leadership, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Loss, Qualifications for leadership, Suffering, Trials
Tagged Hardships, Leadership, Loss, Trials
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Honest thoughts about grief
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid…. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
Posted in Grieving, Loss, Sadness, Suffering
Tagged CS Lewis, Grieving, Loss, widows grief, working through grief
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How should we understand death?
Consider ten truths about death revealed in the Bible. Continue reading
Posted in Death, Fear of death, Grieving, Loss, Sadness
Tagged Death, Fear of death, Loss, truth about death
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Hope large enough to overcome death
Where is there hope sufficiently encompassing to enable us to know that all our pain and suffering has not been in vain? Continue reading
Posted in Christian worldview, Death, Evil in the world, Fear of death, feeling hopeless, Hope?, Philosophy, Psychology, Scripture, Suffering, Worldview
Tagged Death, Hope, hopeless, Loss, Suffering, Worldview
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Great leaders battle depression
Should the power of depression be more than ordinary, do to think that all is over with your usefulness. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Encouragement, Loss, Sadness, Suicide
Tagged Depression, Despair, disappointment, feeling discouraged, fighting depression, Grief, hope for depressionn, loneliness, lonely, Loss, sad, Sadness
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Remedy for a heavy heart
A heavy heart finds comfort and relief when we turn to the worship of praise. We have a great example of this from the disciple whom Jesus loved. Continue reading
Posted in Cross of Jesus, Death of Christ, discouraged, Discouragement, Fear of death, feeling hopeless, Grieving, Hope?, Jesus Christ, Joy, Praise, Sadness, Salvation
Tagged Discouragement, Fear, heavy heart, Loss, praise, Sadness
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Regrets and Bad memories
No matter the cause of your pain or who caused it, the healing process has common stages. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Wisdom
Tagged bad memories, Childhood trauma, horrible upbringing, Loss
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Learning the ways of God
Is your trouble a sense of failure? The knowledge of having made some significant mistake? Go back to God; his restoring grace waits for you. Continue reading
Posted in Failure, God, God as Potter, God's Patience, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Will, Godly sorrow, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom
Tagged Failure, Forgiveness, Loss
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Seven purposes for pain
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis). Continue reading
I will not remember your sins
You are living by the promise of I John 1:9 when you refuse to hold against yourself the sin God does not hold against you. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Comfort, Confession, Conflict, Divorce, Elentics, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Forgiveness, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Godly sorrow, Gospel, Grace, Grieving, Guilt, Hope?
Tagged Confession, Doubt, Failure, Feeling guilty, Forgiveness, Loss
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