1011 FM 1626 (P.O. Box 460)
Manchaca, TX 78652
(512) 282-7274
Lesson 1: God is at home in the wilderness. What surprised me most when I first went to Israel was how rocky and desert like it was. In fact, seventy per cent of Israel is desert. Another word for desert in the Bible can be “wilderness.” The patriarchs Abraham and Sarah, Isaac...
Lesson 7: It is appropriate to move forward with your life David Kessler shares that as he was grieving the loss of his son, a colleague (and fellow loss survivor) said to him, “I know that you are drowning right now. You will keep sinking for a while. There will come a point when...
Lesson 6: There is life after death One of our main tenets as Christians is the confidence in life after death. We see Christ’s own resurrection as a first fruit and guarantee of that life. Paul writes about resurrection in I Corinthians 15 and tells the Philippians that death for...
Lesson 5: Ask a Different Question Three months ago we were in a car wreck as someone ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of us as we were going 70 mph. Fortunately, no one died. We went to the ER and were released hours later. The other driver ended up in the ICU. Our car was totaled...
Lesson 4: Grief comes in wavesElizabeth Kubler Ross wrote a ground breaking book in 1969 where she discussed her working theory on the five stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. It has become fashionable to attack her work - especially the sequential listing of...