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When pain is the freshest, words should be the fewest. I forget where I first heard that and who to...

We’ve been taking a few weeks to open a discussion regarding how to care for those who suffer. The language...

Among the worthy goals of a church that aspires to be healthy is a climate where suffering people are well...

In the last note, I suggested that most of us live in fairly close proximity to someone in the midst...

I wonder – how recent was your last encounter with a person in tears? (For the sake of this example,...

Every Christian understands the sting of regret that comes when we’ve sinned against our Father. Contrition is one of the...

My paternal grandmother, a native of Coffee County, Alabama, held some interesting superstitions. For instance, she held that if someone...

Were I to ask you to list all the things in your life about which you are 100% sure, I’d...

For several weeks, we’ve been reflecting on the 23rd Psalm and have seen how David uses two images to illustrate...

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how our ever-expanding, always-deficient knowledge of the gospel is like exploring a vast estate. Picture...

Surely you know that cinnamon rolls are not the point. Neither is bacon or hot coffee or waffles or biscuits...

It’s likely that most of us underappreciate the goodness of the fact that we are shepherded through life. Is that...