I experienced the grace of God's comfort in 2024 when my husband received the terminal message of stage 4 cancer. In that last 8 month period of his life the Lord comforted us in our anger, He comforted us in our exhaustion, He comforted us in our questioning,He comforted us in our preparing to be apart after 50 years of togetherness. He comforted my husband who knew Him but had not completely surrendered to Him until just several months before receiving his death sentence. I had prayed for 30 years to be able to pray not just "for" my husband but "with him" and in those 8 months He comforted me in hearing my husband as we prayed "together" every evening pray the most beautiful prayers such as"your sheep know your voice" and "Lord, I want to feel your presence". The hospice workers were amazed that he was not in great pain even to the last days.
HE now comforts me through the tears that come without warning. He is the God who comforts!
Thank you Scott and thank you Becky . Such a timely reminder. My wife and talked about this last night, my wife lives in chronic pain and she asked “ is God punishing me”, this brought me to 1 Corinthians , I said God doesn’t punish.
Paul, true to form in his life, did not seek to get all the glory. He shared his platform. “Effective ministry is always,” Guy Nave observes with clarity, “a collaborative effort,” and then he adds value with sensitivity: “and coworkers should be recognized and acknowledged”.
I'm thankful and impacted that SMcK does this very thing in his ministry. He very often "shares the platform" with younger colleagues. I notice him often collaborating in his writing and speaking very highly of and giving credit to the women and men he writes with and the authors whom he reads. Thank you Dr. McKnight!
I experienced the grace of God's comfort in 2024 when my husband received the terminal message of stage 4 cancer. In that last 8 month period of his life the Lord comforted us in our anger, He comforted us in our exhaustion, He comforted us in our questioning,He comforted us in our preparing to be apart after 50 years of togetherness. He comforted my husband who knew Him but had not completely surrendered to Him until just several months before receiving his death sentence. I had prayed for 30 years to be able to pray not just "for" my husband but "with him" and in those 8 months He comforted me in hearing my husband as we prayed "together" every evening pray the most beautiful prayers such as"your sheep know your voice" and "Lord, I want to feel your presence". The hospice workers were amazed that he was not in great pain even to the last days.
HE now comforts me through the tears that come without warning. He is the God who comforts!
Beautiful witness, Charmaine, thank you.
Thank you Scott and thank you Becky . Such a timely reminder. My wife and talked about this last night, my wife lives in chronic pain and she asked “ is God punishing me”, this brought me to 1 Corinthians , I said God doesn’t punish.
I apologize for the long reply.
Not too long, Mike, not too long.
A comment on several sentences here:
Paul, true to form in his life, did not seek to get all the glory. He shared his platform. “Effective ministry is always,” Guy Nave observes with clarity, “a collaborative effort,” and then he adds value with sensitivity: “and coworkers should be recognized and acknowledged”.
I'm thankful and impacted that SMcK does this very thing in his ministry. He very often "shares the platform" with younger colleagues. I notice him often collaborating in his writing and speaking very highly of and giving credit to the women and men he writes with and the authors whom he reads. Thank you Dr. McKnight!
Thus, Calvinist doctrine cannot possibly be true.