Tag Archives: comfort

• The Inscrutable God

  Posted on September 25, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

  There is a joke that goes like this. A grizzled old man and a teen were having a conversation. The man said, “You young people today. All of you are ignorant and apathetic. Why is that?” The teen shrugged and responded, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” That was the charge against God by […]

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  Exploring the Valley of the Shadow of Death

  Posted on November 28, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me (Psalm 23:4). As a pastor, I have attended the bedside of believers as they passed from this life to the next. There’s something unnerving […]

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• How do we comfort the non-Christian in grief?

  Posted on February 2, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Knowing what to say to someone in grief is invariably a tricky endeavor. We want to express sympathy without sounding cliché, and certainly without saying something insensitive. That challenge rises to another level when it comes to extending comfort to someone who is perhaps religious but not a professed Christian, nor was the one […]

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• When Tornadoes Twist Our View of God

  Posted on May 27, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Natural catastrophes like the F-5 tornado outside Oklahoma City and human atrocities such as the murder of the British soldier in London or shootings of school children in Connecticut shake us to the core.  We reel at the pain and horror of it all.  Our hearts break at the suffering shown us by the […]

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• Pray Unto Others

  Posted on April 5, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I am a big proponent of praying specifically.  As a pastor praying for the sheep Christ has entrusted to me, I don’t just pray, “Lord, bless everybody.” No, in the model of the Good Shepherd who knows His Sheep, I pray in keeping with my knowledge of them—their joys, their sorrows, their needs, their […]

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