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Seeing Pain Up Close is an Experience of Awe - Bravester
There have been moments in my life when I have allowed certain others to see my pain. It is in these moments that we both experience awe.
Brenda Seefeldt Amodea,
From a Calloused Broken Heart - Bravester
I am calloused. I still remember the pain of those 22 days—and the rage of anger that followed for months at my son. I don’t want to feel that pain again.
Brenda Seefeldt Amodea,
From a Calloused Broken Heart - Bravester
I am calloused. I still remember the pain of those 22 days—and the rage of anger that followed for months at my son. I don’t want to feel that pain again.
Brenda Seefeldt Amodea,
The Other Side of Why - Sharon Jaynes
Sometimes we have to let go of our plans to take hold of God’s purpose…and it’s always good.
Sharon Jaynes,
Don't Fear: God Moves in the Chaos
Blog by Greg Laurie – “Don’t Fear: God Moves in the Chaos” – Although the disciples lost sight of Jesus, He never lost sight of them
Greg Laurie,
Sufferers and the Book of Job
The post below is an excerpt from my book Job and the Problem of Suffering. The greatest satisfaction Job derived from his ordeal and subsequent encounter with God was the knowledge that God had be…
Claude F. Mariottini,
Why This? Why Me? Why Now? - Sharon Jaynes
What do you do when heartbreak slams into joy? When your soul cracks open and there just aren’t enough tears? When hurt steals your hope and you want to give up on life? When deep soul lesions make a mockery of your faith?
Sharon Jaynes,
"Behind a Frowning Providence He Hides a Smiling Face": On William Cowper
William Cowper (1731-1800) was a man of seeming insignificance in the world’s eyes, but to those who knew him, he was a fearful and lethargic individual who struggled with depression until the day he died. But were it not for the intense suffering of William Cowper, we would not have the beautiful poetry esteeming the sovereignty of God and his work in dark circumstances. Cowper’s mother died at the age of six. That same year, his father sent him off to boarding school. He was not saved until…
Cole Feix,
Are we too familiar with Jesus?
When the Bible becomes too familiar to us, we go to it with assumptions about what it says and we lose our sense of curiosity.
Molly Wilcox,
How to Read the Bible without Missing the Point
Since God had given me His Word and His Spirit at salvation, why was I only now being transformed in ways I’d longed to experience? Because I, like the Pharisees of Jesus’ day, read the Scriptures but missed the point.
Revive Our Hearts,

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