Tag: loss

Is God the Object of Our Hope—Or Is It Our Healing?

April 22, 2022May 18, 2021

As we have faced my wife, Elizabeth’s diagnosis, different versions of healing promises have popped up everywhere. We have been given several books that implicitly or explicitly make such claims. I have talked to people who struggle deeply with the …

Surviving the First Year after Losing a Loved One

March 8, 2019

When my kids catch a glimpse of lightning bugs for the first time one summer, they assume they’re battery powered. “Are those little flashlights attached to anything?” they ask. “Those aren’t flashlights,” I reply. “That’s God’s little magic trick. Wanna …