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  • Christian Anger resource: How to Handle Adversity by Charles F. Stanley

    Christian Anger resource: How to Handle Adversity by Charles F. Stanley

    NOTE: Last week we posted a series: ANGRY Children of a Loving God. 

    I wanted to point you toward an additional resource I discovered from a recent study on Christian Anger.  I have not read this entire book, yet recommend it with confidence based on the attached:

    How to Handle Adversity

    It is important to support Christian authors by purchasing their books. Although many are recognized and trusted theologians like Dr. Stanley, many Christian authors are publishing wonderful contemporary resources.

    Here is a link to Dr. Stanley’s book: InTouch Ministries.

    Adversity is the chisel used by God to shape, define, and sculpt the lives of Christians into the reflection of Christ’s character.

    Dr. Stanley teaches that everyone faces adversity- and the way you respond will determine how quickly you overcome life’s trials. Learn what a powerful combination praising, obeying, and waiting on the Lord can be. Softcover book, 208 pages.

    Price reduced.

    Everyone encounters adversity in this world. Pray to handle it with Christ’s calmness.

    Please do not try to handle anger on your own.  Ask your pastor, priest, or a Christian Counselor to help you with any adversity which causes anger, destroys relationships, and hurts you and your loved ones. – Roger 

  • A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 14

    A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 14

    As I walked through the brilliance of a field now bathed in light, through gentle caressing breezes which flowed over lily and daisy, I basked in the warmth of something I had never known: a love of God.

    I now embraced a love and tenderness toward Jesus I had never sought, but now had found.

    As I had journeyed from the grave and thought of these things, I had been completely unaware of a stream I had crossed in delight, when suddenly a little girl came running toward me, dragging along a beautiful woman also prancing along behind her.

    “Do you remember me?”

    I looked at her loving face and smiled.

    “You showed me your picture of Heaven,” I recalled as I smiled again.

    “This is my mommy!”

    I was certain.

    “Jesus sent us here to show you the way.”

    She beamed in that same love that she had said her mommy had every time she talked about Jesus.

    Now I saw this same love in the souls of both child and her beautiful mommy.

    “You know what?” she exclaimed.

    “JESUS said that we can call God, ‘Daddy.’”

    I smiled in joy and reached out my hand to her, THANKFUL that Jesus had sent this little girl to me with a picture of Heaven.

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    A Picture of Heaven is dedicated to our beloved daughter, Rachel Katherine Harned, whose mommy died when she was seven. Rachel earned her Master of Arts in Christian Counseling from Wheaton College, currently works for a local hospice and will turn age 21 tomorrow, 21 September, 2013.

    Happy Birthday, Rachel.

    Your Daddy loves you.

  • A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 9

    A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 9

    The born again crowds all seem to have a plan for our salvation and confident assurance of a place in Heaven… I just don’t see it in most of their lives.

    I see people who talk about Jesus and Heaven differently in different places. I don’t even think that they understand the salvation they preach.

    Some are always happy to be alive and can’t wait for Heaven. Some are sorry to be alive and can’t wait for Heaven.

    Some celebrate as if Heaven can be claimed on earth.

    (I doubt that they are really looking forward to failing health and open caskets as part of our Heaven on earth.)

    And I have met just a few who talk about Heaven as if they live there, instead of here. They seem to be here though, as if it had something to do with Jesus.

    Somehow all of these pictures of Jesus didn’t paint a clear picture for me. But yesterday, a little girl seemed to have a simple answer. in a clear picture, of some things of Heaven I had been ignoring for a long time.

    Our serial story on Grief, salvation, and being born again from death to eternal life in heaven will resume NEXT Monday.

    In case you missed an earlier episode, here is a link to the beginning of our story.