Way back in February 2006 John Piper wrote an article called “Don’t Waste Your Cancer“. In the last year or so I find myself regularly coming back to this article in an attempt to help me understand how to handle suffering. With my own fibromyalgia and, more recently, the discovery that my mother has [...]
Over the last few months I have begun to wonder more and more whether or not some of my assumptions about my health are true. For example: it feels like I couldn’t possibly do any of the things that God has called me to do, or gifted me to do in the past. My health simply doesn’t seem [...]
One of the subjects that I have given most thought to in my life is the sovereignty of God. In particular, I’ve wrestled with the implications of a sovereign God on human freedom and responsibility.
Let me start out by saying that my position is very much a reformed one. I have come to a place (and [...]