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comfort, death, Disability, disease, suffering
The good folks at Ligonier Ministries have hit the ball out of the park once again with this month’s edition of Tabletalk Magazine focused on death and disease. How I wish I had a copy during my head and neck cancer journey back in ’05. The articles within touch on so many redemptive themes that [...]
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affliction, angels, comfort, encouragement, sickness, suffering
This quarter’s edition of The Free Grace Broadcaster focuses on Comfort in Affliction. I have taken much of value away from the articles within, especially a sermon by Charles Spurgeon called Cheer Up, My Dear Friends. In it he addressed those discouraged that they could do nothing due to being laid aside by sickness or [...]
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grief, loss, strength, suffering, trials
Nicholas Wolterstorff, in his little book Lament for a Son, writes of the loss of his twenty-something boy to a fatal mountain-climbing accident. He asks: What do you say to someone who is suffering? Some people are gifted with words of wisdom. For such, one is profoundly grateful. There were many such for us. But [...]
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earthquakes, gospel, hope, Japan, problem of evil, suffering, theodicy
Like the rest of you, I suspect, Nancy and I have remained glued to the TV the last twenty-four hours watching the horrific images coming out of Japan after the devastating earthquake hit yesterday afternoon. Not even one week’s vacation to rural NC will allow an entire escape from reality in our age of near [...]
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persecution, prayer, suffering
Tomorrow we will observe, as we always do, the International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church. Scriptures like Hebrews 13:3 compel us to do so: Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Open Doors estimates some 100 [...]
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culture, humility, suffering, trials
Well praise God, they’re out! If you’ve been following the saga of the trapped Chilean miners I’m sure you’re aware that all thirty three were safely extricated from the mine yesterday. The whole incident is quite remarkable on so many fronts: the providential provision of a structurally and atmospherically safe chamber where the men could [...]
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cancer, prayer, resolutions, suffering, trials
Recently I introduced a new series of articles based upon my five year anniversary this August from finishing cancer treatment and remaining cancer-free. When I first returned to the pulpit in November of 2005, I preached a series of three sermons from Psalm 116 entitled Seven Biblical Resolutions Distilled from a Battle with Cancer. You [...]
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death, sickness, suffering
While suffering recently through the most prolonged bout with the Epstein Barr virus I have experienced in years, I received two vastly different perspectives on sickness. The first came from an old high school acquaintance. While I was ill she phoned me about our 40th high school reunion coming up in October. I explained that I couldn’t really talk with [...]
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creation, death, repentance, suffering
What are we to make of the tragedy at a local theme park this week? A seasoned trainer of killer whales got dragged under water by her ponytale by a male Orca known for a history of living up to its name. The debate in the news remains alarmingly this-worldly in terms of animal rights, conservation, [...]
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prayer, sin, suffering
Of all the components of pastor’s conferences these days, I enjoy among the most the Q & A sessions that normally come in the mix. On Wednesday of this week in Minneapolis, Pastor Clay, Kevin, and I listened to all the speakers at the Desiring God conference answer a series of questions related to the [...]
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