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Praying with People Grieving Loss from Suicide

Posted on August 30, 2018January 22, 2021 by ptsblog

4I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help, 5like those forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand (Ps 88:4-5). These poignant verses express some of…

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Trusting God in the Middle of Uncertainty

Posted on July 31, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

I live in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane María struck our island as the strongest cyclone in modern history with winds up to 175 mph and rainfall measuring up to 37.9 inches. My mother is the executive director of El Guacio, Puerto Rico’s only Presbyterian camp. Here, we passed the storm….

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Is It Christian Enough? Watching “A Wrinkle in Time” with My Daughter

Posted on June 4, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

My eight-year-old daughter and I left the theater and walked into the bright afternoon sun holding hands. We’d just seen A Wrinkle in Time. That’s a pretty good way for a dad to finish a movie about a daughter who travels billions of light years to rescue her less-than-perfect father from the clutches of evil….

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