The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. One person told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer in her life,...
Excellent reading on suffering from the Biblical Counseling Coalition…… In our ministry at Titus 2, the transition from avoidance of suffering to the willingness to engage with it and reframe it as purposeful is an opportunity to learn and...
Suffering for the gospel is not an elective class in the school of discipleship, but a required course. Dr. Stephen J Lawson It’s also the main tool God uses to grow our character and to teach us to live out the Grace we have been given. Adversity is the forge of our...
Consider this: … it was God who cast satan and the other rebellious, contending, resisting, unhappy angels to the earth among us. We may either join them in their consigned punishment, misery, jealousy, and hatefulness here or we can aspire to the transcendent...
Progressive humanists/educators once opined that children were “Tabula Rosa”, NOT bigoted, but loving and accepting of one another and that prejudiced behavior is learned through the corrupting influence of culture. Consider this: Now, with “new and improved theology”...
