Hope Alive - Todd, Matthew R. S.
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Hope Alive: Going and Growing through Pain is a compilation of personal narratives built around Matthew Todd's life as a husband, a father, a pastor, and a professional. He uses these narratives to reflect on the problem of evil in human life. This volume does not purport to be a comprehensive academic and philosophical tome on the problem of human pain, suffering and evil. Instead, the approach is of one person sharing some personal experiences and theological reflections with family and friends around a coffee table. The difficult experiences include serious accidents, major illnesses, job…mehr

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Hope Alive: Going and Growing through Pain is a compilation of personal narratives built around Matthew Todd's life as a husband, a father, a pastor, and a professional. He uses these narratives to reflect on the problem of evil in human life. This volume does not purport to be a comprehensive academic and philosophical tome on the problem of human pain, suffering and evil. Instead, the approach is of one person sharing some personal experiences and theological reflections with family and friends around a coffee table. The difficult experiences include serious accidents, major illnesses, job losses, unexpected deaths, and criminal attacks. In the midst of these events, Todd offers no simple answers-apart from the comforting thought that God is always with us no matter what we face and the affirmation that God is good and negative circumstances don't change that. The stories in this book reveal God's grace in the midst of hard times. They argue for a Christian faith that says, "Though he slay me, yet I will hope in him" (Job 13:15, NIV) and "If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us...But even if he doesn't, it wouldn't make a bit of difference...We still wouldn't serve [the] gods [of this world]" (Daniel 3:16-18, The Message).
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Matthew Todd (MTS, MA, DTL) is the author of Hope Alive: Going and Growing through Pain (2016), English Ministries Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches (2015), The interface of Percussive arts, religious experience, and sacred Association (2008), and Historical Attitudes that have shaped the Church's use of the Arts (2010). He has taught over thirteen years as an adjunct theology, philosophy, and ethics teacher with L.I.F.E. and P.L.B.C. Canada. The author has served in English ministries in bicultural and bilingual settings as a speaker, counselor, community service worker and ordained English ministries associate track lead pastor. He has assisted amongst Italian, Romanian, Filipino, English, and various Chinese ethnic churches. He has additionally served in the executive leadership of the Chinese churches association in the Mennonite Brethren as a English pastors liaison, in the former Greater Vancouver English Ministries Fellowship (VCEMF - now morphed into what is called Shepherds Circle), helping to plan joint ministerial initiatives and next generation Chinese Canadian events in southern British Columbia. Todd is a Big Band drummer and currently maintains an active writing and itinerant speaking ministry; and a key focus of his written work has been towards the mission longevity and health of English ministry congregations in Chinese bicultural church contexts.