Make me to know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me. Psalm 25:4-5a
Last month, my book club read a book called We Band Of Angels, which told the story of the American nurses taken captive in the Philippines during World War II. I don’t remember studying much about what went on there; the snippets of history we were able to cover in high school focused more on …
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What’s your attitude toward suffering? Perhaps you’re like me, you don’t really consider any of the various trials or difficulties you’ve experienced as truly suffering, compared to the kinds of things others go through. I’ve never been hungry, or homeless, or truly afraid for my life. I’ve never been to prison, and for the most …
What happens after we die? This is a question that every person must ponder at some point, whether they admit it or not. Religions are built on answering it, although no evidence exists that any person has raised himself from the dead except the Son of God, Jesus. In His case, there is ample evidence …
Todd and I are in the process of selling our house and purchasing another, smaller home. We’re downsizing. We want less space and less stuff. That sounds admirable, doesn’t it? But let’s be real. As we look at the state of our world and the kind of suffering that is going on, our American version …
Is it easy for you to believe “unbelievable” things? How much stock do you put in your own understanding of reality, of history, of what you think is possible or impossible? Skeptics of the Bible often point to the stories about Jesus as simply unbelievable. Take Mark 5 for example. Mark relates three encounters Jesus …
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