Day: April 18, 2012

Crazy Love by Francis Chan There is a big problem among Christians in America: laziness. There are many of us who have become complacent in our faith. There are many who love comfort more than Jesus. There are many who want a Jesus that comes along to scratch our spiritual itches. So that, when Jesus says something like, “Take up your cross and follow me,” they try and find any excuse to deny the difficult life (or is it a death?) that Jesus calls them to. I am one of “them”. So are you. Pastor Francis Chan sets out to...

Don’t Sing Songs to a Heavy Heart: How to Relate to those who are Suffering by Dr. Kenneth C. Haughk Suffering is part of life. We are broken people living in a world shattered by sin, and the shards grind together and nobody escapes without the scars to prove it. Dealing with suffering is a difficult enough thing when we’re the ones who are suffering. It can be just as painful or even more so to have a friend or loved one who is suffering. Our desire is instinctively to remove the hurt, to counteract the sorrow. Instinctively we...