Category: Blog

A Bereaved Parents’ Christmas Song

by Todd Shaffer | Dec 20, 2025 | Blog, Music | 0

Christmas is a hard season for bereaved parents. We need a song. Christmas is always hard since...

by Todd Shaffer | May 18, 2025 | Blog, Sermon | 0

A military defeat. A national catastrophe. A lament in one of the darkest moments of Israels...

by Todd Shaffer | Nov 9, 2024 | Article, Blog | 0

Gary & Laura House, of the Our Hearts Are Home ministry, asked me to contribute our story to...

by Todd Shaffer | May 4, 2024 | Blog | 0

My daughter, McKenna, illustrated a children’s book for author Doug Bond and P&R...

by Todd Shaffer | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog, Sermon | 0

In the second half of Psalm 118 we see the Christologic connections to Christ and redemptive plan...

by Todd Shaffer | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Sermon | 0

The last of the Hallel psalms, Psalm 118 is an epic tale of a people who have learned to trust in...

by Todd Shaffer | May 25, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

There are 6 messages in this series on Psalm 22. This is a rich psalm filled with marvelous...

by Todd Shaffer | Apr 25, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

Many of the psalms are birthed out of situations of suffering, pain, and disappointment. As life...

by Todd Shaffer | Apr 7, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

There is one verse in Job that I find to be outrageous. It’s a statement made by fool named...

by Todd Shaffer | Mar 9, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

Two years ago today my wife and I buried our 18yo son, our third child, Tristan, who took his life...

by Todd Shaffer | Mar 7, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

…and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it....

by Todd Shaffer | Mar 1, 2022 | Article, Blog | 0

Have you ever found it hard to sing at church? For more than a year after my son’s death, not only...