This summer my wife and I traveled to Rome to take in the sights and wonders of the ancient city. Due to the many layers of history buried beneath many current structures, one of our tour guides described the city like ‘lasagna.’ In our several days in the city, we drank from a fire hose […]
Suffering
Hope When It Hurts: Biblical Reflections to Help You Grasp God’s Purpose in Your Suffering
My review of a great new book on finding God’s purpose for your suffering. It’s amazing to me that, in God’s perfect design, suffering is a major part of the Christian life. From a strictly human perspective, that hardly sounds like the ‘good news’ of the gospel. But the gospel is so good, that even […]
Learning to Embrace the Benefits of Affliction
“The advantages of afflictions, when the Lord is pleased to employ them for the good of his people, are many and great.” —John Newton John Newton wrote, “The advantages of afflictions, when the Lord is pleased to employ them for the good of his people, are many and great.”1 This is just one of the […]
Clinging to Christ While Battling Cancer
My mother entered into glory in March 2016. She fought the good fight of faith, and the fight against ovarian cancer for three and a half years. Throughout her whole cancer experience, the Lord was near—even though she experienced incredible physical and emotional pain. I tried to encourage her as a good son, but it […]
An Amazing Example of Christian Love and Hope in Suffering
It’s not often that reading a story online makes me cry, but Singing Man: Story Behind the Viral Video of Ben Ellis on The Gospel Coalition did yesterday. Ben Ellis was a teacher at a Christian school in Nashville diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer. He loved Jesus and loved singing to Jesus. Recently, a video went viral […]