Run. Retaliate. Repress.

Run. Retaliate. Repress. – “Run. Retaliate. Repress. Three temptations in times of suffering and trouble.”

 

Emotional Concussions

Emotional Concussions – Helping Children Cope With Life’s Traumas.

A Prayer for Taking Your Kids to School After Tragedy

A Prayer for Taking Your Kids to School After Tragedy – “There are no easy answers, but prayer is a good place to start. As we take our children to school, we can take our anger, grief, and fear to our heavenly Father.” Here’s a prayer based on Psalm 139.

3 Reasons I’m Glad That God is Sovereign Over Tragedy

3 Reasons I’m Glad That God is Sovereign Over Tragedy – “I know there are some who find this difficult, but I want to give three reasons why I’m glad that God is sovereign over tragedy.”

 

Do You Need Counseling? 6 Questions to Help You Discern

Do You Need Counseling? 6 Questions to Help You Discern – “There are times when talking with someone who has focused expertise may be helpful.” Here are some of those “times” to consider.

Emerging From Our Trials Unscathed

Emerging From Our Trials Unscathed – “Our trials should make us better, not worse. They should strengthen our character, not diminish it. They should grow our virtues, and amplify our Godward desires, and more prominently display the fruit of the Spirit.”

How to Care for Someone Walking Through Trauma

How to Care for Someone Walking Through Trauma – “Generally, someone who experienced trauma needs a safe place to process their trauma and a safe person whom they can process the trauma with.”

God Can Handle Your Crisis

God Can Handle Your Crisis – “Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.”

How To Talk With Kids About Shootings

How To Talk With Kids About Shootings – “When kids see or hear about shootings, it can cause anxiety, fear, grief, helplessness and anger. It is important that we guide them toward stability and trust in God. Here are some key tips you can use when talking with kids about tragic events like this shooting.”

Let Tragedy Find Us Living

Let Tragedy Find Us Living – “How are we to go on living in a world where risks threaten us at every turn?”

 

No Matter the “Hurricane”

No Matter the “Hurricane” – “Some hurricanes, like Ida, happen in the environment. Others happen in our hearts, health, and homes.”

Chariots Of Fire

Chariots Of Fire – “In the middle of our broken world, this is what we all need: eyes that see Christ, and see him as bigger and more powerful than the troubles that surround us.”

Crisis

Crisis – “In the telling of his story, the psalmist goes back and forth. Between relief and alarm. Death and rescue. The way we often do. In the context of crisis.”

What is the “Greatest Threat to the Gospel”?

What is the “Greatest Threat to the Gospel”? – “As we enter seasons where external cultural forces make it difficult to live a life of faithfulness, our internal radar will frequently signal, ‘Danger!’ We move to protect ourselves or warn our community, and rightly so. But here’s the catch…”

How to Respond to National Tragedies

How to Respond to National Tragedies – “Nehemiah’s six-fold response coaches us in how to respond to devastating national news.”  

Then and Back Again: How 1968 Looks like 2020

Then and Back Again: How 1968 Looks like 2020 – “Connecting the dots between 1968 and 2020 is a fruitful line of thinking, because we have circled back to the same uncannily familiar moment of national intensity and upheaval.”

This Isn’t Going to Be as Easy as it Looks

This Isn’t Going to Be as Easy as it Looks – “Difficult situations arise on an almost daily basis. How we respond to these situations is the issue. Do we respond in fear or do we respond in faith?”

Alone Against the Mob: Crowds, Cancel Culture, and Courage

Alone Against the Mob: Crowds, Cancel Culture, and Courage – “The clueless majority, not knowing why they were there to begin with, knew enough to shout down someone who sought to speak — for two hours. Here identity politics and cancel culture were on full display.” (Paul in Ephesus)

Why is the Culture Dark and Decaying?

Why is the Culture Dark and Decaying? – There are several reasons but one thing we can count on – Jesus will be victorious.

When the Headlines are Horrifying

When the Headlines are Horrifying – “What do we do when it feels like we’re a headline away from hopeless?”