In Times Like This – A Song for the Black Times

In times of trouble, whether relational, financial, serious, even terminal, illness, when it may appear that all the foundations and structures of life, all the things upon which they have relied, all hopes for the future, seem to be in danger of being washed away, people often turn to the Old Testament book of Psalms. The main reason for this is that the Psalms are songs that cry out of the depths of the human heart. cries that express the full range of human emotions from shouts of joy and praise to anguished cries of despair.

The Last Mountain

One of the worst and most depressing experiences I have had happened a few years ago when I sat at the hospital bedside of a dying man. What made it one of my worst experiences was not that he was dying but that he was dying without God. Here was a man teetering on the … Continue reading The Last Mountain