In Christianity’s seemingly upside-down economics, we call the death of our hero, our teacher, our miracle worker, and our God, ‘good.’ For outside observers, Good Friday is often just one more bit of evidence that Christianity doesn’t make…
“One of you will betray me” “Peter, you will deny me three times before the cock crows” “This is my body, which is broken for you” “This is my blood, which is poured out for you” “I am…
The following are notes from Cameron Cole’s talk “Preparing Kids and Adult to Suffer: Truths That Comfort, Sustain, and Redeem in Tragedy,” given at TGC 19 in Indianapolis on April 2, 2019: The road ahead of me is…
I remember the sense of paralysis I felt on my second week of youth ministry when a child’s father died. I had no idea what do. What was the first step I should take? Now, I have worked…
This will be our second Christmas without our son. Ruben was stillborn at 25 weeks and 6 days on March 19thof 2017. We buried him a couple days later. He had my nose. Advent means “Jesus is coming!”…
God’s Word has a way of continually moving us beyond religious platitudes and fake-it-til-you-make-it sentimentality.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28 This famous verse offers a great Gospel comfort, but I wonder if it hasn’t sounded a little naïve to…
I just watched my seven-year-old go through her eighteenth surgery last month. It was intense and stressful and extremely painful to say the least. It was agony to watch. I was only the witness to her physical and…
It is not hard for me to find someone close to me who is in the midst of suffering, whether he or she is a Christian or not. We live in a broken world, and so we suffer….
