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Even the Hardest Heart: Hope For the Prodigal

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Phill Lytle 1 Comment 2 Timothy, Doubt, Hope, Loss, Love, Prayer, Questions, Repentance, Restoration, Scripture, Sin, Songs, The Church, Whiteheart

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Literature The Five

Inspiration from The Green Ember

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Nathan Patton 3 Comments Action, Anger, Commonplace Book, Ember Falls, Emma Joveson, Healing, Heather Longtreader, Hope, Jealousy, Picket Longtreader, Rabbits, S.D. Smith, Selfishness, Smalden "Smalls" Joveson, The Green Ember, Truth, Whittle Longtreader, Wilfred Longtreader, Wisdom

The Green Ember series has been meaningful to me in both the original context in which it was written and my personal context of the current events of 2020.

Theology

Hosanna

April 10, 2020April 11, 2020 Phill Lytle 1 Comment Faith, grace, Hope, Joy, Life, Light, Loneliness, Lost, Mercy, Salvation, Sin, Suffering

Hosanna in the highest!

Literature Theology

A Reflection on “Lament for a Son”

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 David Lytle 7 Comments A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis, Death, Grief, Hope, Job, Lament for a Son, Lamenting, Matthew, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Psalm 42, Psalms, Remembering, Resurrection, Revelation

I picked up the book a few weeks after my 14 month-old had passed. What I read crushed my soul, or should I say shined a light on my own crushed soul.

Literature

I Am Thankful For… Unexpectedly Good Books

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Nathan Patton 2 Comments Brandon Sanderson, Fantasy, Hope, Science Fiction, Skyward, Starsight, Stories

I’m thankful for good books to read, especially when they are unexpectedly good books.

Family The Five Theology

When the Best Seat is the Worst Seat

July 20, 2018July 8, 2019 Staff 5 Comments Comfort, Grief, Hope, Loss, Mourning, Sadness

Dealing with the death of a loved one. A special guest post by Jeff Caudill.

Theology

We Have This Hope

November 9, 2017August 5, 2019 Phill Lytle 6 Comments 1 Chronicles, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Elijah, Evil, Faith, grace, Grief, Hebrews, Hope, Jeremiah, Love, Mass Shooting, Matthew, Prayer, Psalms, Repentance, Thanksgiving, The Church, The Two Towers, Tragedy

Trying to make sense of another senseless tragedy. (1,574 words)

Literature Misc Theology

The Rough Draft of Solace

May 17, 2017August 19, 2019 Phill Lytle 8 Comments 2 Corinthians, Anger, Aslan, C.S. Lewis, Cancer, Comfort, Doubt, Eustace Clarence Scrubb, Frodo Baggins, Galatians, Grief, Hope, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jill Pole, John, Joy, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Mount Doom, Pain, Prince Caspian, Psalms, Rejoice, Samwise Gamgee, Sorrow, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Silver Chair

Searching for hope in difficult times. (2155 words)

Film Literature The Arts Theology

On Stories, Questions, and the Power of the One True Myth

October 23, 2016September 3, 2020 Phill Lytle 7 Comments Books, Christianity, Doubts, Faith, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Hope, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Reading, Scripture, Sovereignty, Story, The Lord of the Rings, True Myth, Truth

Is God powerful enough to take our wounds and our brokenness and turn them into something beautiful? Can He redeem our suffering and give us our own happily ever after?

Theology

Grief, Hope and Theology That Matters

August 10, 2016August 6, 2019 David Lytle 12 Comments Death, Grief, Hope

Does it actually matter what someone believes about heaven when life becomes hell? (1,874 words)

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