If you want to comfort a loved one who is dying, don’t pretend everything will be OK. Our comfort begins at the cross. We provide care to suffering people when we allow them their cries of forsakenness (see Psalm 22). We don’t have to pretty up dying with false hopes.
Martin Luther once wrote: “Without trials ... a person can know neither Scripture nor faith, nor can he fear and love God. If he has never suffered, he cannot understand what hope is.”
How Long?
We ask, “How long will you defend the unjust, O God, and show favor to the wicked?” God points to the cross and ...
Ethics and Suffering
How are Christians to respond to this shift in the ethics of medicine today? The path that seems most appropriate ...
