When a Christian friend is hurting from a deep loss or disappointment, you want to offer comfort that eases the pain, right? I still remember friends who...

How do you keep going when you’re hurting? How do you live with pain? Well, someone once said… Just do the next thing. Like, don’t try to wrap your mind...

With quadriplegia, lung problems, chronic pain, and aging, life isn’t getting easier. It’s also getting shorter. Yet even though I’m on the downside, that’s...

Who has your heart? I mean really has it? Like, what do you think of first thing in the morning? Where do your affections lie? Food, jogging, Netflix, books...

I love the verse that says, “If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.” Now, God may not have kept you from affliction...

“We are God’s masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 Today is World Down Syndrome Day and ...

Did you know that God has his own great name at stake in your suffering? He says in Isaiah 48, “I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For my own...

I just listened to the Beatles’ classic “Here Comes the Sun”—a song I played a lot when I was first injured. Thirty seconds into it, I was sobbing, thinking...

When I am in physical pain, it helps when friends offer life-giving words. Instead of saying, “Oh, I’m so sorry; I feel so bad for you,” instead, they’ll...

God enrolls every Christian in the school of suffering; the same one his Son attended. Sure, we want to do well in that school, but often we squirm if the...