Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
One of the wisest statements I ever read said that feelings must be owned before they can be disowned. People who make the psychological approach of “stuffing their feelings” do themselves a disservice. They avoid hard reality instead of working through it.
When I was a pastor in Yorkville,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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SO PERSONAL
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. In the first 15 years, 54,000 items were left at the Wall. It still takes almost an hour every night, [and much longer on Memorial Day,] to collect all the mementos-a teddy bear, a photo of a soldier's grandchild, a letter from a
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Contributed by John Beehler on Mar 13, 2002
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I was at the service for Mary Ellen’s father this past Monday. There was grief. There were tears. But I sensed God’s presence there, as well. Through the grief, when the tears were flowing, He was right there, crying right along with the family and friends, feeling the pain and loss every bit as
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
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CARRYING GUILT
When I was a summer chaplain, I visited a person in the ICU hooked up to the machines and such, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief that I also had a strong panic attack. Although the patient looked nothing like my grandfather, I was just suddenly stuck with the picture of him
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 18, 2006
“Out of Bounds”
The old shepherd who offered prayer in a Welsh revival meeting put it exactly right when he expressed grief for his backsliding in these words: “Lord, I got among the thorns and briars, and was scratched and torn and bleeding; but, Lord, it is only
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Christian Church
PUTTING THE BRAKES ON
"Violence puts the brakes on authentic development and impedes the evolution of peoples towards greater socio-economic and spiritual well-being. This applies especially to terrorism motivated by fundamentalism, which generates grief, destruction and death, obstructs dialogue
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Catholic
Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 11, 2003
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Patsy Clairmont in her book “Under His Wings” tells a moving story of the reality of dealing with grief. “We buried my friend’s 26 year old son last week. An accidental gunshot took Jeff’s life. We have more questions than answers. We are offended at people who have all the answers and no
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 24, 2003
William Bathurst once said,
“O for a faith that will not shrink,
Tho pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe!
That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,
But, in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean upon its God;
A faith that shines more
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Oct 31, 2004
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Jamie Buckingham has said about this “The tragedy of our wilderness experience is not that we have to go through grief and suffering- but that we often miss the blessings from burning bushes.-the things through which God speaks. God still calls us by name and
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 12, 2010
O For a Faith
O for a faith that will not shrink,
‘Tho pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe!
That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,
But, in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean upon its God;
A faith that shines more bright and
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Baptist
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IT IS WELL
“H. G. Spafford was a businessman in Chicago. He was a dedicated Christian. [There were times in his life when the wisdom he followed was earthly, unspiritual, and subject to the enemy’s schemes]. He had some serious financial reversals, and during the time of readjustment, he lost
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United Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
There was a professor who told his class that man is only a meaningless piece of protoplasm. He dismissed class early because of grief over his young daughter, whose life would be scarred because she had run off with an older man. A Christian student asked, “How can
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.
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C.S. Lewis is portrayed in the movie Shadowlands as a man struggling with doubts about God. Shadowlands is about his life and reveals the awful ordeal he had to go through with his wife dying of cancer: I discovered these thoughts on the internet about this movie:
1. Jack’s grief was intense. His
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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