by Neale Davis | Dec 10, 2012 | Identity, Ministry
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Ministry had become my identity. No I didn’t think of myself as a child of God, in daily need of grace, in the middle of my own sanctification,...
by Brad Hambrick | Dec 7, 2012 | General Resources, Grief & Loss
Often it can be hard to recognize grief as grief, because of the absence of a death. Major losses can be caused by many other life changes than someone dying. But this difficulty goes well beyond the challenge of rightly labeling an experience. When we do not...
by Kathy King | Dec 6, 2012 | Identity, Ministry
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Human beings are always assigning themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity...
by Neale Davis | Dec 4, 2012 | Anger, Forgiveness, Grief & Loss, Shame, Suffering
Your dad says he’ll pick you up Friday afternoon and the two of you will go camping for the weekend. You don’t see him much because your parents are divorced and you live with your mom. The thought of your dad taking you camping feels so great. In fact, it makes...
by Brad Hambrick | Dec 1, 2012 | Death, Grief & Loss, Miscarriage, Trauma, Women
Grieving the loss of an unborn child can be particularly difficult. No one else had the privilege of knowing your baby and, therefore, many of the rituals of grief (i.e., sharing pictures or stories of how the lost loved one touched other’s lives) cannot be engaged....
