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1. How to Escape the Valley of the Shadow of Death

...  the death of a loved one are at a 400 percent higher risk of heart attack. The body needs at least 20 months to physically recover from loss or trauma. Most church-based grief programs are only four to t ...

Created on 23 June 2017

2. Stop Saying These 5 Unbiblical Things to Grieving Friends

Grief is a complex journey. One who has grieved the loss of a family member or close friend will tell you that it is a long journey. It is multi-layered. Most of all, there are seasons of grief that don' ...

Created on 06 June 2017

3. Strengthening Your Marriage While Coping With Heartbreaking Loss

... d or should I say, pedaled that picture out. Losing our daughter has been one of those times. We take turns pedaling. Sometimes the grief is too much for him, and I sit in the front and pedal. Other t ...

Created on 29 May 2017

4. Responding to Inconsiderate Words When You're Grieving

I'll never forget the confusion I felt after my second miscarriage. Words that were meant to comfort me rang hollow in my ears. Some of them just annoyed me and even hurt deeply. "It must have been God's ...

Created on 22 May 2017

5. 3 Ways to Grieve Without Letting It Consume You

When we do not know who we are in Christ, we will search for an identity. We find it in our abuse, our career, our role as a mom or a homeschooler, our weight loss—and our grief. If we allow our grief ...

Created on 16 May 2017

6. How Holy Spirit Helps You Deal With Unresolved Grief

... iving. Sometimes new grief brings back the pain of old loss. In chapter 3 of Grieving With Hope, we find that sometimes new grief can bring up the pain of old loss. This is completely normal as it rem ...

Created on 25 April 2017

7. Breaking Your Unholy Covenant With Grief

... d some heart exploration, and had a talk with a close friend about it all. Through all of that, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about the fact that I had made a covenant with grief. I have been abandoned mo ...

Created on 18 April 2017

8. Beware of These 2 Unhelpful Extremes When Processing Intense Grief

I think one of the most difficult emotions we process is grief. Grief can happen for many reasons, not just the passing away of a loved one. We grieve for lost opportunities, loss of a friendship or relationship ...

Created on 03 April 2017

9. A Time to Mourn

Perhaps all of us have experienced a time when we were belittled by a leader for a mistake we made. Some leaders make themselves feel better by making others feel worse. This isn't the way of Jesus. A ...

Created on 22 March 2017

10. Miraculous Compassion After Indescribable Grief

I had a renewed strength and some encouragement after leaving Dover, witnessing the honor paid in respect of my husband. I realized how much of a hero Javier truly was, and I decided I would pour all my ...

Created on 14 March 2017

11. Unforgettable Lessons on Healing From Heart-Scarring Loss

No, I'm not really alone. I never have been, and I never will be. But grief is hard. My husband died exactly one year ago. I don't think I've ever been through anything so exhausting—not OB-GYN residen ...

Created on 28 February 2017

12. A Christ-Focused Widow's 2 Keys to Healing in Excruciating Sorrow

There's no way to make death and grief OK. Death is an aberration in God's universe, and every time we meet it there is suffering. We try all kinds of things to delay it, ignore it and pretend we can eva ...

Created on 23 January 2017

13. Strategically Strengthening Your Spirit in the Middle of Maddening Chaos

David, the great Old Testament figure, was no stranger to discouragement, fatigue, fear, confusion, doubt, bad decisions and second chances. Like refreshing rain on parched ground, his raw humanity, disarming ...

Created on 20 January 2017

14. Your Prophetic Weapon To Disarm Post-Christmas Blues

Intense desires and expectations accompany the Christmas season. Beneath the smiles, lavish decorations and melancholy music, most people are longing for deeper meaning and validation.   In pursuing this, ...

Created on 27 December 2016

15. 4 Unwavering Truths to Combat Satan's Insidious Attacks Against You

God made a declaration about Job that every child of God should hope He will make about them. God said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless ...

Created on 26 December 2016

16. 4 Choices You Must Make to Weather Your Dire Crisis

There are moments in life that catch us off guard and send us reeling. Whether it's the unexpected diagnosis, the job loss or the late-night emergency phone call that wakes you at 3 in the morning, sometimes ...

Created on 23 November 2016

17. How You Can Find Freedom From Your Pain

...  situation envelop my entire being, or would I face the pain and process my grief with honesty and truth? Are You a Walking Mummy? In John 11:44, when Lazarus came out of the tomb, he was alive, yet bound ...

Created on 16 November 2016

18. The First Step in Breaking Free From Abuse

The first step in breaking free from abuse, whether it's sexual, physical, verbal or emotional, is sharing with someone who can help you break free. Jesus said in John 8:32, "The truth will set you free" (MEV). ...

Created on 09 November 2016

19. Starting Afresh After Heart-Wrenching Loss

I looked up the word "resilience" a few weeks ago. I was preparing for a speaking engagement I had coming up on the topic, and this is what I found: resilience noun | re·sil·ience | \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ : ...

Created on 04 November 2016

20. The Sweet, Shocking Results of Obeying Holy Spirit's Nudges

... n inspired and emboldened to respond to the holy nudge in their own lives. One woman bravely prayed with a girlfriend who had been suffering with grief since the abortion of her first baby decades earli ...

Created on 18 October 2016