By Matt Chandler (pictured above; 1974- ), pastor at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas. ——————————————-    All of us are only a phone call away from our life changing forever. We will get sick. We will lose loved ones. Trials will come. And we don’t know when suffering will hit us.  […]
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Matthew 14:15-21  —  As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late.  Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”  Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away.  You give them something to eat.”  “We have here
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‘Just Have More Faith;’ How Bad Theology Hurts the Suffering, by Vaneetha Rendall Risner, posted March 21, 2019 at: http://www.desiringgod.org ————————————    (…continued)  Looking at the fuller counsel of the Bible, it is clear that God has plans that we do not understand. His ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8–9). Because we believe
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‘Just Have More Faith;’ How Bad Theology Hurts the Suffering, by Vaneetha Rendall Risner, posted March 21, 2019 at: http://www.desiringgod.org ———————————————    Why does God answer yes to some prayers and no to others? Why does God miraculously heal some people and not others? Why does disaster strike one city and not another? Â
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Above painting: Christ and the Good Thief, 1566, Titian ———————— By Joshua Rogers, posted April 21, 2019, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com —————    “Jesus, remember me.”    Every Easter I come back to those three words.  They never get old. I invite you to pray these words often and remember the one who loves you
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“If You Feel Distracted in Prayer, Don’t Worry—It’s a Good Thing” By Joshua Rogers, September 24, 2018, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ————————-    So many times the same frustrating thing happens when I try to pray. “Heavenly Father,“ I say, but almost immediately I get interrupted by my own thoughts.    I really hope I
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By Joshua Rogers, posted August 4, 2018, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ————————    I wanted the job. I wanted it badly. And a few weeks after making it to the final round of interviews, I learned that I had just missed the cut.    I called my friend Shon to share the bad news. Â
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By Joshua Rogers, a writer and attorney who lives in Washington, D.C. Rogers blogs at: http://www.JoshuaRogers.com    My seven-month-old nephew Canaan (above) was dying and nobody knew it, including his doctor, who had misdiagnosed his digestive issues. The real issue was Hirschsprung’s disease, one of the leading causes of death for kids like Canaan,
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F. Kefa Sempangi (above) was pastor of the large Redeemed Church of Uganda. He tells this story in his 1979 book A Distant Grief. Easter Sunday 1973 was his first serious brush with death at the hands of Idi Amin’s goons. After an all-day worship service he went exhausted to the vestry to change clothes—
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By author Philip Yancey, posted January 21, 2018, at: http://www.philipyancy.com    Do you ever find yourself repeating the same requests over and over and wonder, “Is anyone really listening?” I take some consolation in remembering that Jesus, too, had unanswered prayers.    According to Luke (6:12-13), Jesus spent an entire night in prayer
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