Believers of all abilities need the Scriptures Before our children learned to read the Scriptures for themselves, they listened to hours (and hours!) of Bible story and Scripture tapes and CDs. They learned a lot of Bible and memorized a lot of Scripture this way without much effort on our part. The repetition of quality …
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Alzheimer’s disease is among the top ten causes of death in the United States and is steadily climbing toward the top of that list. Is there anything that can be done to prevent or even reverse it? Subtitled The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, The End of Alzheimer’s by Dale E. Bredesen, …
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There are plenty of books out there that claim to know something about Heaven. Many of them are full of dangerous misinformation and deceptive fantasy. The Bible, however, gives us the Truth. It gives us all we need to know about our forever home. Still, we have questions, and that's OK.
My book, Never Ceasing: God's Faithfulness in Grief, is now available for purchase. Buy Now I began writing in early 2016 just after Hans left us for Heaven and started publishing this blog in September of that year. Just about five years later (almost to the day) my book is now ready to share in …
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I have begun putting together a resource page consisting mostly of books I have found to be helpful in my own loss experience. Here's the link to the new page: youcantrusthim.com/resources
I was deep into a collection of short stories written by Anton Chekhov when I turned the page and was confronted with a story entitled Grief. I briefly considered skipping it, but I am so glad I didn't. Mr. Chekhov understands a bereaved parent's compelling need to talk about their loss. Every public domain site I …
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I cannot say enough good things about this book. I read it over and over in the early months after Hans left us and was greatly encouraged. Mrs. Fleece is a wise and gentle woman whose writing style is both comforting and instructional. Not By Accident: What I Learned from My Son's Untimely Death tells …
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Anyone who has lost a loved one wants to know where that person is now. For the believer in Jesus, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord 2 Cor 5:8. But where is that? And what is it like there? And what are they doing up there right now, anyway?
This book is one of the first I wept through in the early days after Hans went Home to be with the Lord. I had purchased a copy some years ago for a friend, never dreaming I would someday need the profound encouragement it offers. James Bruce begins this book by sharing his own story …
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