Encouragement
Stories, devotionals, and podcast episodes to give you more HOPE, ENCOURAGEMENT, and PEACE in your journey.
Sharing your testimony can feel like the last thing you have energy for on a cancer journey. However, one man in the Gospel of Mark shows us why it may be exactly what Jesus has in mind for you… and why it heals the one who tells it.The Man Who Wanted to Follow JesusIn Mark
Praying when you feel nothing is the part nobody warns you about. We talk a great deal about how to pray and almost never about what to do on the mornings when you do it and absolutely nothing happens.FOUR THIRTY IN THE MORNING, AND NOTHING My friend Dan Green has been getting up at four thirty
Keeping a cancer diagnosis to yourself is one of the most common things people do, and almost nobody talks about it. There is a stretch of hours, or days, between the moment you find out and the moment anyone else does. That gap is its own kind of lonely. THREE DAYS IN A MOTORHOME My friend
Telling your family you have cancer may be the hardest conversation a person ever has. Dan Green had to do it while his family was still reeling from the last one – and he could not get the words out for three days. Prefer to watch? This episode is also on YouTube.THE WEEKEND HE TOLD NO
When God feels distant during cancer, most of us quietly land on one of two conclusions. Either He has walked away from us… or we have done something to push Him away. However, I want to offer you a third possibility tonight. And I believe it is the true one. He is right there. You just
If you are reading this while you are waiting on a scan or a set of test results, then learning how to deal with scanxiety is exactly what I want to talk with you about today…and I am so glad you are here. I have walked my own cancer journey, so I know this particular
If someone you love has cancer, you have probably already asked yourself how to support someone with cancer without making it worse. You want to say the right thing. Meanwhile, you are terrified, and you are not sure you are allowed to be. I want to talk to you today, because most of what gets written
If you were just diagnosed with cancer, this episode was made for you. In Part One, my friend Doug DeFouw told us his story. Today I turned the conversation around and asked him about yours. This is Part Two of my conversation with Doug. However, you do not need to have heard Part One to get
There is a moment right after a diagnosis when almost every one of us does the same thing. We start facing cancer alone — not because anyone abandoned us, but because we quietly decide that is how it has to be. We stop returning calls. We keep the details vague. And we tell ourselves we
There is a question I still cannot answer with complete certainty, even today — and it sits at the heart of what finding peace in a cancer journey really means. On the day of my first surgery, lying in a hospital bed after four hours on the operating table, facing news I was not prepared for
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