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Tag Archives: Trials
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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Nature’s wonders follow the plow
Are you safe and undisturbed, living lazily in the sunshine – the picture of sleepy contentment? Continue reading
Posted in Christian Counselor, Christian life, Christianity, Disciple-making, Discipleship, Maturity, Suffering, Trials, Walking with God
Tagged Hardships, Suffering, Trials, troubles
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Understanding trials
Prepared for the tough parts of the journey. Continue reading
Posted in Disciple-making, Discipleship, discouraged, J. I. Packer, Loss, Suffering, Trials
Tagged Hardships, setbacks, Suffering, Trials
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Trials of many kinds
A series on the book of James that lasted one year. Continue reading
The outcome of our suffering
Sometimes we are not sure of all the purposes involved in our suffering. I am encouraged by the hope that the outcome would be a display of… Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Loss, Pain, Suffering, Trials, Wisdom
Tagged confused by suffering, enduring suffering, Hardships, Suffering, the suffering of Job, Trials, why we suffer
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Not always Wonderful, Great, and Amazing
Have we created a Christian culture that encourages expectations of uninterrupted happiness? Are we comfortable with being uncomfortable? Can we accept the fact that it sometimes doesn’t feel good to be a Christian? Continue reading
A thorn in the flesh?
Three purposes of thorns of affliction and much more… Continue reading
Allured by love
He promises to draw us apart, for there he can best deal with us, and this separated place is not to be a Paradise, but a wilderness, since in such a place… Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Despair, Disciple-making, Discipleship, discouraged, Discouragement, Doubt, Fear of death, Glorify God, God, God as Potter, God's Heart, God's Love, God's Protection, God's Will, Godly sorrow, Questioning God, Seeking God, Spiritual disciplines, Suffering, Trials, Walking with God, Will of God
Tagged doubting God, God's ways not our ways, hard times, Questioning God, struggling, temptations, Trials
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Buried or planted?
A perspective to challenge us in times when we feel unproductive or when we’ve been unfaithful.
An application of this distinction (Buried or Planted) could be made at the graveside of every believer in Christ. Continue reading
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