Category: Healing from your grief

By Kevin Halloran
Article extracted from TGC US Edition

The reason there are so many books on prayer is that even after reading them, we still struggle to pray. Some reasons are intellectual—we don’t know how or why to pray in a particular situation. Some are volitional—our hearts are distracted or apathetic. Still other reasons are due to lacking proper practical tools.

As I’ve pondered how to grow in prayer, one simple solution has stood out as a versatile tool for overcoming our struggles: the Lord’s Prayer. This should come as no surprise, since this is the way Jesus taught his disciples to pray (Matt. 6:9–13).

Here’s how the Lord’s Prayer helps us overcome six common prayer struggles…KEEP READING

By Kyle Johnston
Article extracted from TGC Africa

In these short video clips, we’re trying to think about how to grow in emotional wisdom. And in this particular one I want to help you think about the emotion of sorrow that you experience during grief. And so, what we’re going to do is think about what grief is and then we’re going to think about how we process it.

What Is Grief?
Firstly, grief is the emotional reaction of sorrow, of sadness. And it’s often brought on by bereavements, by loss, or by suffering. And so to grieve is to experience sorrow – often quiet profound sorrow – and distress, and emotional pain.

Let’s think carefully about what the Bible actually teaches us about grief…KEEP READING