Death Leads to New Birth with Resurrection Hope
For the believer, death leads to new birth and a life through all eternity with Jesus as well as those loved ones who have gone before.
Grief Posts
Don’t Sing Happy Songs to a Heavy Heart
Singing happy songs to a heavy heart is cruel. Don’t tell grieving people that their pain is a gift or make them sing praise songs when they don’t want to. Don’t tell them that other people are suffering more than they are.
What I Need to Know About Pain
I know Pain sometimes wins. There are just days we can’t rally, but we serve the Suffering Savior, a personal God who GETS Pain, who doesn't abandon us. Pain is how we share in the sufferings of Christ.
A Prayer of Dark Despair • When Hope Seems Lost
I find it striking that Psalm 88 includes virtually no words of reassurance. Nowhere does the psalmist add parenthetically, “But you are the Lord of mercy and compassion,” or anything else like this. Most psalms of lament include words of hope. Not Psalm 88. Here we find dark despair.
