GRIEVING WITH HOPE One of the hardest things to learn is how to grieve when we lose something or someone important to us. We often fight against feeling pain and allowing ourselves to be sad and weep when we we see a part of our lives ending. Yet often we have to let things die [...]
Complicated Grief Death and trauma are part of being alive! But we are just coming through a pandemic where illness and death visited every Nation in the world killing 3.93M people: grandparents, fathers, mothers, children, and friends. This might be a good time to talk about complicated grief. As Christians our hearts are anchored [...]
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU DESOLATE— LOSS, GRIEF, RESILIENCE Ernesto Vasquez, MD July 2, 2021 In John 14:18 Jesus promises us that he will not leave us desolate. When I look at that passage in the light of Christ’s commandment of loving one another in John 13:34, then I begin to surmise how, at [...]
EMOTIONAL PAIN, GRIEF, TRAUMA Ernesto Vasquez, MD June 19, 2021 “Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will understand” ISAIAH 65:24 “My wife’s died and I am devastated,” was Jay’s opening sobbing sentence in our first session, “I feel so lost!” Jay explained that his wife had an MRI [...]
Are you feeling anxious? Have you been stirred up by current events and uncertainties? Are you feeling unrest in your soul? “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled.” These are the words that Jesus left with his disciples the night before his crucifixion. That’s right. He was preparing for his death, actually his murder. Yet [...]
AUTHOR ARCHIVES: https://davebarnhart.wordpress.com/author/davebarnhart/ About Dave Barnhart I’m a United Methodist pastor of a network of house churches (Saint Junia United Methodist Church) in Birmingham, Alabama. My mission in life is to teach and live resurrected life in Jesus among passionate people. I’m married and have a son. I’ve written a couple of books: What’s [...]
It was a dinner party like none other.The disciples of Jesus Christ were preparing to celebrate the Passover meal together to commemorate the miraculous deliverance of the Jewish nation from slavery and bondage to Egyptian rule.But the evening at hand brought a bitter-sweet turn of events.Jesus sat among his closest companions, 12 men who for [...]
