Tag Archives: God

Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love

As someone who has personally struggled with depression and tried to minister to loved ones in the thick of it, I have experienced how difficult it can be to know what to do or what will help. It can be easy to throw up your hands in defeat. But before you do, know that thereContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love”

Flashback Friday – What to Do in the Waiting

We’ve all had to wait.  Wait in line for a package, for test results. Waiting isn’t fun.  We are impatient people.  We want instant turnaround. And those are just small things. It becomes even harder when you’re waiting for something of greater significance. Perhaps it’s waiting for future plans, a legal matter, or for aContinue reading “Flashback Friday – What to Do in the Waiting”

Flashback Friday – An Encouragement to Weary Pastors

Pastors are facing depression and anxiety in record numbers this year. As if the numbers pre-COVID weren’t alarming enough, the pandemic has added an unpredictable monster in the cave that could pop out or change form at any moment. Pastors are having to make decisions they have never had to face before and for which thereContinue reading “Flashback Friday – An Encouragement to Weary Pastors”

How We Can Forgive Past Hurts

We’ve all had someone cause us great hurt, pain, suffering, or injustice. Our knee-jerk reaction may be to make them pay, retaliate, or hope they get what’s coming to them. But Christians are called to forgive. That can be hard even for the smallest offenses, but what about when we have deep, lasting pain, trauma,Continue reading “How We Can Forgive Past Hurts”

Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness

Hopeless – “having no expectation of good or success, not susceptible to remedy or cure, and incapable of redemption or improvement” (Merriam-Webster). We feel it as despair or that dark hole of existence we think we will never be able to climb out of. As of late, it seems to be a common theme forContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness”

The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, . . . that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filledContinue reading “The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love”

Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace

I remember coming in from recess on a hot spring day, sweaty neck and dirty knees, standing in line with a bunch of other matted-haired children for the drinking fountain. Hinging down and titling my neck at my turn, I couldn’t wait for that cool stream of relief to roll down my throat. To myContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part One): Is God Truly Knowable?

Who is God? What is he like? Is he even knowable? And if so, why should we want to know him? These are all important questions to ask and each deserves a fair consideration. In this series of articles we will look at these questions and more, but for now we will only deal withContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part One): Is God Truly Knowable?”

Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 2): Why Should We Study the Attributes of God?

“All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.” —A. W. Tozer Everyone knows there is a God. This isContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Attributes of God (Part 2): Why Should We Study the Attributes of God?”