Today I came across a discussion on the Facebook page of an American pastor whom I respect and it centred around this issue of whether or not Christian people should love and forgive themselves. I have had to think about it and do it in my own circumstances, and I thought it worth discussing here [...]
Archive for the ‘Grief’ Category
Can we love or forgive ourselves?
Posted in Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 11 April, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Fathers? What on earth are they?
Posted in Abuse, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 28 September, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of my good friends who also struggles with SSA, Stan, has a blog where he reflects almost daily on the struggles that he has with parental neglect and the roller-coaster life that is that of same-sex attraction. On September 5 this year, he wrote on of his usual heart-wrenching posts on fathers/dads. So much [...]
Spew your grief out to God
Posted in Church, Grief, Lamentation and Woe on 17 September, 2011 (Saturday) | 2 Comments »
When my mother died, a friend took me to Psalm 77 and eventually I discovered Ps. 88. They were passages that validated my own grief, and gave me prayer templates that I could spew forth my grief to God. In the book ‘He Began With Moses’, a 20 page chapter is devoted to the topic [...]
9/11 woman covered in dust
Posted in Grief, Hell and Judgement, Lamentation and Woe on 12 September, 2011 (Monday) | 2 Comments »
Over the last week there have been some interesting stories surrounding September 11. One is an account of the African American lady who was photographed on the day of the terrorist attack, who was covered in dust. This is where she is at now, and sadly it’s not a pretty picture (pardon the pun). The [...]
Thanks to my Evangelical Heritage
Posted in Anger, Grief, Healing and Restoration, Quotes, Reflections, Revelations, Where I'm 'At' on 9 September, 2011 (Friday) | Leave a Comment »
When I first became a Christian way back in April of 1998, it was through Sydney evangelical preaching and teaching. The people in my life whom God used to bring me to Jesus were/are all of the Sydney Anglican flock. Those who looked after me in church were Sydney Anglican evangelicals. I have been challenged [...]
The Saul Syndrome: Narcissism, Co-dep., and Insecurity
Posted in Abuse, Anger, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration, Quotes on 29 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
By far the most popular posts that I have written on this blog are the ones about King Saul, of all things. Heaven knows why… People do a Google search on King Saul and manage to track their way to this blog. Yet he is an intriguing character, because he is such a chilling representation [...]
Why do you keep going into the gutter?
Posted in Anger, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 15 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
You know what the Bible says about sin, yet you keep on doing it impulsively and compulsively. But why? Why doesn’t your cognitive reason match with your behaviour? Could it be that your heart is wounded and that many parts of your being are not redeemed by Christ and that you find yourself in destructive [...]
Preaching and the candy store
Posted in Bible college, Grief, Hell and Judgement, Homelitics, Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament, Theology Study on 1 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to new books, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Today I gorged myself on some theological candy with the arrival of the book Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures by Kenton C. Anderson. Anderson is the head of a homiletics organisation in North America and [...]
The grief of an uncherished PM’s daughter
Posted in Abuse, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 28 June, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
I was very saddened to read that the daughter of former Australian PM Bob Hawke, Sue Pieters-Hawke, had an altercation with her step-mother at Sydney Airport’s Qantas lounge. The police had to separate them. I can’t bring myself to condone with Pieters-Hawke did, but I know that she must be a very sad and angry woman [...]
Anger can lead to healing
Posted in Abuse, Anger, Counselling, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 25 May, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of the most well-known songs during the 1980s – 90s was a tune called “I’ll Stand By You” by Pretenders in their album Last of the Independents. It’s easy to see why it was so famed: it sang about the profound emotion of anger and gave it licence and permission. It doesn’t do that [...]
