Tag: suffering

  • What’s in a Name? I Am! – Part 1

    What’s in a Name? I Am! – Part 1

    We were all given a name when we were born by our parents.  They searched and discussed names until they came to an agreement of what to call you.  If you’re like me, then you’ve wondered what made your parents name you what they did.  I asked my mother many years ago the reason I’m…

  • The Spiritual Battle: Suffering and Satan’s Devices – Part 3

    The Spiritual Battle: Suffering and Satan’s Devices – Part 3

    PREPARATION FOR THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE How do we prepare for the battle we don’t know is coming?  How do we know what to expect in the midst of suffering?  What are we to do when suffering hits, and Satan tempts us to give up or be angry?  We have established in this series that God…

  • The Spiritual Battle: Suffering and Satan’s Devices – Part 1

    The Spiritual Battle: Suffering and Satan’s Devices – Part 1

    Suffering is part of the life of everyone who breathes on this earth.  It doesn’t matter whether you are a believer or not; we all suffer.  Our suffering can be in the areas of relationships, health, sin, or the results of a natural disaster.  We can suffer emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The suffering we…

  • Christmas…A Different Feel

    Christmas…A Different Feel

    This Christmas will be a first without a parent for me.  I won’t be sitting next to Dad cutting his meat, or keeping Mom from eating all the chocolates on the table.  My brother will not be offering Dad another glass of tea or giving him another sea salt caramel.  These tasks will be missed…

  • Unhelpful Helpers – Part 3

    Unhelpful Helpers – Part 3

    Spiritualizing Samantha When we go through trials, we want to find the right kind of help.  As followers of Christ, we want to have help from someone who is a mature believer.  This is a good thing because we should seek help from someone who can point us to the scriptures.  The problem is, even…

  • Life…A Paintball War

    Life…A Paintball War

    Have you ever been in a paintball war?  “Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with round, breakable dye-filled oil and gelatin pellets (“paintballs”), usually shot from a compressed air (nitrogen) or carbon dioxide-powered low-energy air weapon called paintball marker.” (according to Google)  You should…

  • Here Comes Another Wave!

    Here Comes Another Wave!

    Waves are active on oceans, lakes and rivers.  They are caused by the wind as it blows across the surface of the water.  The size of the wave is determined by three factors:  wind speed, distance of open water that the wind has blown over and the length of time the wind has blown over…