On today's Equipping You in Grace Dave and Deborah Howard talk about her experience as a hospice nurse and how it helped her to think more about death and hope in Christ, how the character of God helps Christian face life with hope in the Lord, how Christian friends can help us in our walk of faith in Christ, along with her book, Jonathan Edwards and the Christian Pilgrim (Christian Focus, 2023). What you'll hear in this episode • How Deborah's lived experience as a hospice nurse helped her to think more about death and our hope in Christ. • How Hebrews 11 helps us hold onto the promises of God in the present while we look forward to the return of the Lord. • How understanding more of the character of God in Scripture helps Christians to face life with hope in the Lord. • How Christian friends can help us in our walk of faith in Christ. • How Bible reading and doing life with others in our local churches help the Christian. About Our Guest Deborah Howard and her husband, Theron, live outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Deborah's writing and speaking ministry serves to comfort the hurting, to instruct, and to write for Him. As a former hospice nurse, her experience lends itself to this ministry. Her fiction work is designed to entertain while demonstrating that living according to biblical principles is indeed possible. Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!