On my last trip out to Bakersfield, I read Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller. There are books that touch your heart and others that shape your thoughts. This book was one of the rare ones that was able to do both at the same time. On one hand it had […]
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Best Book on Suffering I Have Read – Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering By Tim Keller
December 11th, 2013 · 3 Comments · Books, Christianity, God, Religion, Theology
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Comforting the Bereaved
April 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Christianity, Death, Jesus
700 years before Jesus was born the prophet Isaiah predicted many things about him. The famous passage in Isaiah 53 says that Jesus would be, “a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering.” (Isa 53:3). Jesus was in tune with those who were suffering because he knew what it meant to suffer. In John 11, […]
What is the Hardest Thing About Being a Christian?
March 10th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Blessing, Christianity, Religion
Being a Christian is tough work. I know Jesus said his yoke is easy and his burden is light. I know he said that we should come to him and find rest. But then he tells us that once we get there we have a cross to take up and follow him. How do the […]
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