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We live in a grief-illiterate society. After the death of a child we often hear “there are no words.” But there are words. Oil for Your Lantern offers the newly bereaved, and those who love them, a gentle introduction to life after the death of a child, sharing words when we don’t yet have them ourselves. Oil for Your Lantern is a series of thirty essays written by Elizabeth Brady since the sudden death of her son, Mack, from sepsis in 2012. Elizabeth’s essays move both outward and deeply inward, exploring practical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of mourning a beloved child. “...

Does God’s command to love your enemy include forgiving the drunk driver who killed your only child? It’s Christmas Eve, but Frank and Elizabeth Morris have no reason to celebrate. Joy, peace on earth, and good will toward men have been replaced by heartbreak, hatred, and bitterness. Their beloved only child, eighteen-year-old Ted, has just died from injuries sustained in a horrific automobile accident. Days later, they would learn that their son had been killed at the hands of a drunk driver. The Morrises’ strong Christian faith is shaken to its foundations as grief chokes every bit ...

When our son died by suicide on March 10, 2022, Terry and I were faced with the greatest tragedy of our lives as Christians. Today, we have already written a book dealing with our grief for that death in Suicide’s Aftermath: Three Griefs More! Christian Couple’s Compounded Grief for a Loved One’s Suicide. In retrospect, now 1 ½ years after his death, I feel the need to further counsel Christians on how to deal with any other sudden disasters that attack their faith. Charlie is going further into the decision process involved in a crisis of faith. Soon after finishing the first book, ...

El libro Más humanos de lo que quisiéramos está dedicado a todas aquellas personas que con un corazón sincero procurar agradar a Dios, con su vida cristiana y con su servicio, pero que, a pesar de su amor a Él y sus esfuerzos por agradarle, no lo logran del todo. Es que hay aspectos muy humanos que aún no les permiten llegar a ser o producir todo lo que quisieran en favor del reino. A veces, tendemos a mostrarnos más fuertes y santos de lo que en realidad somos, aparentamos ser impermeables al dolor o a las tentaciones; como si estuviéramos en un nivel superior que el resto de los ...

These are poems that I wrote when I lost two women that have played a role in my child-hood, my grand-mother and aunt. They both passed away this year, I mourned for them and wrote these poems. They tormented my life when I was young. I held the hands that once beaten me with love instead of with revenge. I forgave them, prayed for them and loved them before they died. In all these I thank God of heaven.

The only thing predictable about life is its constant unpredictability. One moment you could be living the American Dream; the next, you could be immersed in grief. Regardless of where life takes you, it’s important to maintain faith in God. Tim Orr’s life came crashing down when his wife passed away, leaving him to raise his young daughter by himself. However, an immovable faith in God guided him through the heartbreak, and he and his daughter found a new way forward. In Letters to My Daughter, Orr tells the story of how he escaped a life of sin and depression and found one of faith ...

While lamenting might not be the song we would choose to sing, God desires to allow us to know and understand His heart more through our songs of lament. Will you sing this song with me as we dive into five of the wonderful characteristics of God while harmonizing through the book of Lamentations? We will see He is Holy, Merciful, Faithful, Patient, and full of Grace.

Nine weeks in the Refiner’s Fire, the Cardiac Care Unit—intensive care for heart patients—in the Mayo Clinic, the planet’s premier medical facility. Two brothers. One in the bed. One at his side. One fighting tenaciously for life. One in anguished prayer to God. Both born of The Spirit, washed in The Blood, sanctified by the Fire. This is our story—Soli Deo Gloria.