Family… The Purity of the Words of God in Psalm 12 21 Feb 2020 Perhaps you've had this experience: you know that the person talking to you is being dishonest, insincere, or manipulative but you are unable to prove it. Or perhaps you have…
Trauma Trauma and Union with Christ (Part 4) 30 Jun 2018 All Christians have a larger story than the one they experience in the day-to-day routines of life. We belong to a grand narrative being written and told by a Sovereign…
Trauma Trauma and Union with Christ (Part 3) 14 Jun 2018 Pain from the past never justifies sinful behavior in the present. Traumatic pasts and traumatic memories do tend to tempt survivors with all sorts of sinful responses, and yet God…
Trauma Trauma and Union with Christ (Part 2) 8 Jun 2018 The believer's union with Christ is a key doctrine that can help to alter our perception of self in the aftermath of traumatic experiences. The doctrine is useful in that…
Trauma Trauma and Union with Christ 24 May 20187 Jun 2018 "The most important habit that doctrine forms is neither linguistic nor conceptual but imaginative" (Vanhoozer,The Drama of Doctrine, 377). The gospel gives to Christians the ability to imagine a new…
Trauma Stability First: Practical Ways to Help Sufferers of Trauma 18 May 2018 I was compassionate, but I was also ignorant. I was a counseling a young woman who had experienced sexual assault in her past. I wanted to help and while I…
Trauma Stability First: God’s Compassion for Victims of Trauma 3 May 2018 Processing painful emotional memories can turn a world upside down all over again. Often for victims of trauma the recall of traumatic memories is more like reliving the experience than…
Trauma Jesus and Trauma (Part 3) 13 Apr 2018 Trauma isolates. Those who have suffered from trauma have the natural temptation to think that they are alone in the world. No one can understand what they have been through,…
Trauma Jesus and Trauma (Part 2) 5 Apr 2018 What must the disciples have felt like in the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion? It's hard for me to even comprehend the shock they surely must have felt. Jesus, after…
Trauma Jesus and Trauma (Part 1) 30 Mar 201830 Mar 2018 Traumatic experiences upend a world. Life as it once was has come to a crashing halt and those who suffer from trauma find themselves questioning everything. One of those things…
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