How Can a Good God Allow Evil to Continue?Answering Your Teenager’s Questions About Faith
Our kids need to see that honest faith can hold both sorrow and hope at the same time.
Our kids need to see that honest faith can hold both sorrow and hope at the same time.
No matter what we are presently facing, God wants us to know that he sees us, he loves us, and he’s got the whole world in his hands.
The theological hope that arises from the spirituals is that King Jesus not only understands our troubles, but has journeyed through them.
We can ask God to use our own suffering to bear witness to our children that we have a friend in the flesh and in the fire.
We want our children to learn to pray, to depend on God, to build a history with him.
In his lovingkindness, Jesus often allows us to look back at seasons of distress and see how he carried us through.
If our children are in Christ, we can be confident in their future. Their best, and our best, is yet to come.
We were once dead in our sins and strangers to your grace, but you have called us by name and made us brothers and sisters
I can do little to rescue him, but I can bring him before you, trusting that you are intimately acquainted with his tears and tossings.