Grief - Gentle Reformation

An Apology for Retirement

April 30, 2024

These things are not universal truths. They are merely the testimony of my experience and of limited and particular application. If it fits, wear it. If not, don’t.

Book of Ruth

The Unfinished Story

December 29, 2023

For a plethora of reasons, the Book of Ruth has a special place in my heart: it was one of my first expository series that I preached; read by a death bed, it

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Incomparable Comfort

May 24, 2023

The only – the only – thing that can satisfy the soul in these sorrows is the faithful promise of God to undo these calamities into the perfection of His joy.

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Remember

September 11, 2021

In the midst of calamity, death, war, and affliction we ought to remember. Remember who we are. Remember who God is. Remember the only hope we have, Jesus Christ. Remember the hope of redemption in Jesus. Biblical rememberance leads us to cry out, "Come Lord Jesus, come quickly."

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In Sympathy to the Challies Family

November 09, 2020

Dear Tim and Aileen, At the moment I saw Tim's title on his post dated November 4, my heart immediately sank. The whispered prayer "Oh, please no, Lord!" escaped

Grief

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn - Applications for Lacrimations

September 05, 2020

These are just some brief thoughts about how to read and use the often-neglected book of Lamentations with pastoral profit. Introduction How valuable this book is - in this world of tears it

Grief

He will wipe away every tear...

November 02, 2019

As some will know by now, my mother has just been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 83 years: it is condition which attacks the electrical junction of the nerves

Christ

Distance Education

February 28, 2014

If you were told that a friend had suddenly become ill to the point of death, would you not do everything you could to get to your friend as soon as possible, especially

Funeral

Holy Grieving

July 11, 2013

I know _Gentle Reformation _has been relatively quiet recently. I know for me my inactivity here has been mostly due to grieving that, like the chaotic storms we have witnessed as of late,