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Battling discouragement with God’s Word

Singing Christ’s Hope has a new creative team from within our subscriber family! This week’s praise interruption is offered by our sister in Christ who has shared a “couraging-into” writing…”A Walk Behind Enemy Lines: Why Discouragement is the Enemy’s Most Effective Tool and How to Overcome It.” Our accompanying playlist Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
cross in a mountain valley

What can we sing when we fear more suffering?

David was afraid. Of course! Running for his life, leaving his loved ones and home behind, living off the land, he hid in fear of attack and death at the hands of his enemy. For 20 years, scholars say. Vulnerable. Humbled. Lonely. Living in darkness. Dependent on God’s grace. For Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
cascade between rock formations

Our powerful God is transforming us in this suffering!

Lord God Almighty, As You sanctify every believer in Christ, this suffering is part of Your transforming work. It’s Your ongoing and promised work to us as Your believing children, in Jesus Christ! A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord, a wonderful Savior to me; he hideth my soul in Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
flowering plants blooming in spring

Called…to rest in the LORD, for His glory

My husband and I were chatting with a young missionary couple who now deal with chronic illness, living in a foreign land. One of their prayer requests was to ask the Lord to ease the suffering body’s new need for rest…”in order to fulfill their calling.”  I blurted out something Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
waves on a sea

Jesus calls us, over the noise of this world

Jesus, As we suffer, ebbs and waves of tumult threaten to drown us. Noisy uproar. Words of online and media crowds that confuse our thoughts. Expectations pulling us under. Changes and unrest that seek to rob us of Your peace and joy. It all aims to tug us away from Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
Caregiver giving elderly woman a sponge bath

Compassionate care of Jesus in our suffering

I’ll never forget the compassionate care of the medical helper. She quietly entered my hospital room and touched my arm. “I’d like to give you a sponge bath.” After multiple nights of sweating through agonizing and intractable pain, after one of the most pain-full surgeries one can endure, her hushed Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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How can God redeem our suffering?

Many try to comfort me by telling me what they think God is up to as I suffer with remaining chronic illnesses and pain. They anticipate what He must be teaching me through this. They peer into the future and imagine how He must be working. They attempt to give Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
woman in white dress posing in nature outdoors

Jesus, help me to put on my new identity as I suffer

I don’t talk much about my daily struggles with chronic illness and pain symptoms and all their wretched effects on everything, certainly not on social media or in my blogs. I constantly tell God all about them, crying to Him for help, relief, and wisdom to deal. Honest lament continues Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
patient sleeping on a hospital bed

Our Homegoing: Unchanging Hope in Anticipatory Grief

This week, I share a guest post from a subscriber to Singing Christ’s Hope. She wrote this beautiful poem in her anticipatory grief of a beloved friend preparing to meet Jesus face to face. She wrote about our homegoing, our unchanging hope in Christ in every loss we experience in Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
music sheet on organ

Matching and morphing my emotions: God’s healing with music

My nerve pain from the recent medical procedure had brought piercing electric shocks once again. I couldn’t hold back my tears or cries of anguish. My neurologist was so compassionate, but it had to happen. Yes, I’m awake for these treatments that are helpful, occurring every three months.  This time, Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago

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