![Healingāand LeadingāAfter Tragedy, Part One Healingāand LeadingāAfter Tragedy, Part One](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/54050.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Millions of predictable seconds will tick by, marking out a lifetime for each of us. Just a handful of moments will stop us short, altering our future so completely that it’s not recognizable as connected to our past. Thirteen years ago, I was confronted by this kind ...
![Can We Stop the Fall from Grace? Can We Stop the Fall from Grace?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53932.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Three days after I read an article by a church leader who had fallen into sexual sin with someone in the church, my husband asked me to pray with him because he felt he was being tempted by women at his job. He said the attacks happened quite suddenly and wanted me to know ...
![Youāve Hit a Roadblockā¦Now What? Youāve Hit a Roadblockā¦Now What?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53927.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Have you ever come to a roadblock in your ministry or job and wondered why God would lead you along so clearly only to bring you to a sudden standstill? That’s happened to me many times as I’ve followed His leading and then gotten confused when I felt Him say ...
![God Lives in the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days God Lives in the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53668.jpg?h=168&w=300)
“It's been an Alexander day.”
I love that when I say that to my True Love, he knows exactly what I mean.
“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”
My Alexander day didn’t involve railroad pajamas, but it did start with only five ...
![Has Accountability Disappeared from the Church? Has Accountability Disappeared from the Church?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53666.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Merriam-Webster defines accountability as “the quality or state of being accountable; an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.” As we watch the news today, it appears as if no one wants to be held accountable. ...
![Lead Me On: When Stephen Colbert Says Thatās Not Good Enough Lead Me On: When Stephen Colbert Says Thatās Not Good Enough](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53506.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Leading up to his last episode of The Colbert Report, more than one million viewers tuned in nightly to laugh at Stephen Colbert.
His Emmy award-winning jokes were fired at viewers fast and easy. However, Colbert recently told a Slatepodcast audience that those jokes represented ...
![Tips for Preventing Suicide Tips for Preventing Suicide](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/53504.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Unfortunately, there is no miraculous human intervention that resolves suicide risk. But there are specific actions you can take to prevent suicide, actions that become more extensive with increasing risk. Following are several ideas for pastoral care, which is different ...