Suffering

Writing

When Jesus entered our world, he came all the way down. He lived no middle-class life. He was invited into the places of power only to be condemned. His withstood the full weight of temptation but never gave in. His…

Writing

Why is suffering, like taxes, so ubiquitous? Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen take up that question in their book Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness. They ask, “Does the Bible give an apologetic…

Writing

When we suffer, our heart breaks open to God in ways that it can’t otherwise.

Writing

If Acts 2 shows us the favor of the early Christians in the beginning of the church, Acts 4 shows us the persecution of the early Christians in the beginning of the church. They once had favor will all the people ( 2:47…

Writing

Death changes things. It changes more than removing the presence of someone. It changes cars, porches, beds, tables, atmospheres, homes. A home once filled with laughter and love becomes a place of sobs and sorrow. It’s…

Writing

My wife and I were married in June 2008. The next summer we got a dog, a border collie, named Glory. We started building our life in our new home in our new marriage with our new dog and our new jobs. Everything was…

Writing

Jack Miller once said in a letter to a missionary in Uganda, “the book of Acts is the story of the acts of Christ done in history in response to the constant corporate prayer by the leaders of the church.” One clear…

Writing

Seeing Jesus suffer helps give us more patience in our own sufferings. While we are waiting for our suffering to come to an end, we are still covered by the love of Jesus. Jesus understands. He knows what it is like to…