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hope in suffering
Loving Our Neighbor with Our Words
While “toxic positivity” and “empathy misses” are usually well-meaning attempts to help, they can end up causing more pain to people who are already suffering in some way. Here are some thoughts on how to love people with our words.
4 Things to Stop Believing about Suffering
Everyone faces suffering in this life, and it’s not helpful when well-meaning people say, “It could be worse!” Ugh. Here are four things we need to stop believing about suffering.
The Perfect Outcry in a Broken and Anguished World — Psalm 130
We live in a broken world. The locus of humanity’s ills is the pollution and power of sin within the heart and soul of every human being. In Psalm 130 we hear the perfect outcry that can, and must, arise from every heart.
A Better “Normal”? How I Hope the Pandemic Changes Things
In what ways can the new “normal” brought about by the pandemic be better for us when it comes to our perspective toward daily life?