November 11, 2020 Have you ever felt hopeless? I have. Did someone give you platitudes, if so, did it help? Have other people helped you when you were feeling hopeless? How did they help you? Did they encourage you? Did they comfort you? Did they...
November 4, 2020 Have you ever felt violated? Have you ever been abused by someone? Have you every had something stolen from you? Have you ever felt threatened by someone? I have. How did you deal with it? Did you try to det up boundaries around...
Have you ever looked up in the sky at night when you were not in a city? I have. Have you ever looked at a cell in a microscope? Have you ever seen the birth of a child? When you think about the world that God created does it give you hope? If...
October 21, 2020 Have you ever been captured by someone or something? I have. Are you currently a captive of something? Are you a captive of addiction, alcohol, substance abuse or gambling? Or maybe you are captive to an eating disorder? Do you...
October 14, 2020 Have you ever been broken hearted? I have. How did you go about fixing it? Did you just tough it out? Did you talk it out? Did you seek professional help? Did you just live with it? Was it over a broken relationship? Was it over...
October 7, 2020 Have you ever been distressed? Did you hope to be rescued from your distress? Were you rescued? How did it happen? Did a friend or a loved one help you, or did you just muddle through until the distress concluded? When you were...
September 30, 2020 Have you ever been hungry? Not just because you haven’t eaten in several hours, but really hungry and you needed to eat immediately. What did you do? If you were me, you went to the kitchen or a nearby restaurant and found...
September 23, 2020 Have you ever been disappointed with the result of something? I have. Have you ever pinned your hope on a particular result, a win by your baseball, football, basketball or hockey team? What happened when the results were not...
September 16, 2020 Have you ever felt like you were not safe? Have you felt like everything and everyone was closing in on you? Did you feel like you needed a place of safety? What did you do about it? I know that when I was little and I felt...
September 2, 2020 Have you ever wrestled with great grief? I have. Was your grief so bad that you lost all hope? I have. How do you express your grief? Have you expressed your grief to God in lament? Nonetheless, did you feel abandoned by God? I...
August 26, 2020 Have you ever been afraid? I mean really afraid. If you have what happened? Did you lose hope? Did you think you’d never stop being afraid? Why do you think that was the case? Have you emerged from that time of fear? How did it...
One of the most common questions I have found people asking is, “Why is this happening to me, I am a good person?” Have you ever asked this question? I have. Have you come up with an answer to the question? I have in part. What makes a person...
