Greg Lucas has written many encouraging and touching reflections about being a father to Jake, his profoundly disabled son (now aged 18). None have been more poignant than this. My face seems to be scarred these days with the dried and salty tear tracks of weary frustration. I cry more than people know—more than a …
Mark Buchanan’s new year reflection may seem to start a bit maudlin, but goes on to remind us that the change and decay which comes with passing years is meant to usher us from attachment to the temporal and direct us to the eternal. And the season of life which he describes also seems eerily …
Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 22 Q & A 37 Q What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? A The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,*1 and do immediately pass into glory;*2 and their bodies, being still united in Christ,*3 do rest in their graves, till the …
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