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High-profile pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life,” lost his 27-year-old son late last week. The young man, Matthew, apparently took his own life. A statement issued by Rev. Warren’s church, Saddleback …
“Goliath stood and shouted….‘I am the Philistine champion….Choose one man to come down here and fight me!’” 1 Samuel 17:8 Philistine champion warrior Killed by shepherd boy David GOLIATH GOT NO TAKERS. He offered to settle the war between Jews and …
“God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.” Genesis 2:8 A GARDEN PARADISE, Eden (EE den) was home to the first humans. Its location, “in the east,” may point toward the Persian Gulf areas of Iraq and Iran—east …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from a friend of mine, Rose Buffington. You get a free book for it, Rosie. Pick one from the list. Here’s Rose’s question. In Bible Study this morning the question came up: When Jesus casts out a demon, does he …
I HAVE TWO FAVORITE Bible passages. They’ve been with me for most of my life. I’ll share one of them with you today. I’m going to let you read it the way I read it the first time, from The Living Bible—which has long since been replaced by the New …
I DUG OUT of 12 inches of snow late last week. It looks like I’m going to get to do it again, early this week. Today, in fact. I’m prepared. I bought a snowblower last fall. We didn’t get any snow last year. I figured that was because my next-door …
“HEY GOD. Where are you?” “Did I get it right? Do you really exist?” Sometimes I ask that out loud, looking up at the sky from my office window. That’s because sometimes it doesn’t feel like he exists. It feels like I got it wrong. For heaven’s sake, …
IT HAS BEEN RAINING all morning. It hasn’t rained this way since I can’t remember when. The ground has been thirsty. And I’ve grown weary of being stuck between blue skies and hard-packed dirt. It’s the dead of winter, but I’ve been writing all …
WHERE CAN the shooter’s family and friends turn for support? I’ve been wondering this. Shooters, bombers, and other mega-killers leave behind family and friends who loved them in spite of the sickness or perhaps the darkness within them. If we’re a …
PICTURE GOD as he: sits on a cloud watches a shooter kill kindergarten children does nothing about it. Who wants to worship a god like that? Heck, who wants to give him a capital G? Anyone in heaven or on earth who has the power to stop the shooter …
CHRISTIANS SWEAR AT GOD SOMETIMES. Industrial-strength swearing. Some lose their faith. It’s all because of wrenching stories that drive this question. Fire guts a New York City apartment. Sitting on the closet floor, huddled in the fetal …
IF THERE’S A GOD, why doesn’t he show himself—or at least say hello? Most Christians would love it if God paid them a visit. They’d pummel him with questions. And if God is omnipresent—as the Bible implies—why not show up? He could appear to …
