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Christmas is a hard season for bereaved parents. We need a song. Christmas is always hard since losing my son almost 6 years ago. In some ways it's easier, but the hard edges still have their shards in me. I wrote this song for my wife to reflect our shared grief....
Dan & Kristin Naylor share the story of their daughter Abby who lost her life in the womb due to an umbilical twist. The Naylors talk about the realities of their grief, difficulties of returning to church, and how God met them in their pain and walked with them. This dear couple share a lot of wisdom that can help those who have lost children, no matter what the age. Watch on Surviving...
We were invited to share our story of losing Tristan with Teresa Davis on The Grief Mentor Podcast. We talk about how God walked us through those darkest of days and continues to be alongside us today. Also on YouTube
We were interviewed by The 700 Club Canada to talk about child loss and our documentary Surviving Child Loss.
A military defeat. A national catastrophe. A lament in one of the darkest moments of Israels history. This innocent, soul-searching, God-trusting people wrestles with the unthinkable possibility that God was behind their slaugther. Yet, their faith is grounded, and is...
My daughter, McKenna, illustrated a children's book for author Doug Bond and P&R Publishing. It's part of Doug's A Poem With A Promise series. "God's Servant Ruth tells the story of Naomi, Boaz, and Ruth in verse. This beautifully illustrated book explains...
In the second half of Psalm 118 we see the Christologic connections to Christ and redemptive plan of salvation emerge from the historic musical procession of the Israelites as they thank God for their deliverance. We learn that the crisis that threatened their...
The last of the Hallel psalms, Psalm 118 is an epic tale of a people who have learned to trust in the Lord in the face of great distress, and the strength that they were able to show knowing that the Lord is on their side, he is their “azar,” and he is their refuge....
There are 6 messages in this series on Psalm 22. This is a rich psalm filled with marvelous insight to encourage and comfort the suffering Christian. It provides some of the grandest truths in all of Scripture, Job-like in it's intensity and Revelation-like in it's...
Many of the psalms are birthed out of situations of suffering, pain, and disappointment. As life doesn’t unfold for us as we thought it would, our confusion over life’s realities shake our trust in the things we put our hope in. Our carefully laid out plans, the...
There is one verse in Job that I find to be outrageous. It’s a statement made by fool named Bildad. Bildad has a theory about why all ten of Job’s children were killed by a whirlwind. In fact, it’s not just a theory, it’s a theology. It’s a stunning, out-of-bounds...