Sometimes, we say the wrong thing. We’re human. We are self-centered. We can’t help it–self-centeredness keeps us alive–but it doesn’t make for the best comforting, empathetic, emotional...
Every now and again I read a book that I feel may have been divinely placed in my hands. The Anxious Christian is such a book. I was immediately drawn in when Rhett Smith said, Listen to your...
It can often be believed that “If I could only find someone”, “If I were only married,” then I wouldn’t be lonely anymore. I remember believing this myth myself. Cognitively I knew it...
In this post I want to explore one of the areas that Henry Cloud dives into in his book, Changes that Heal, which I’m going to call seeing both the good and the bad. I find this subject to be...
The Burner is sorry that he somehow missed this. The Work of the People interviewed Fuller professor and Director of the Institute for Recovery Ministry Dale Ryan about “telling the...
In some ways the film Tyrannosaur is true to its namesake: devastating, powerful and irrevocably impacting. Both characters: Joseph (Peter Mullan), and Hannah (Olivia Colman) deliver compelling and...
As a pastor myself, I am aware of the many needs that our congregations have as we serve them as shepherds of God’s flock( see 1 Peter 5:2-4). A crucial ministry that we pastors have is to...
