An Atheis… oops, Religious Response
Among the toughest questions I have been asked as a pastor is some variation of the following: Why is God allowing this to happen to me? The life situations that prompt […]
Tag Archives: faith
Christianity isn’t for the faint-hearted
Do you want to get well? It seemed such an obvious question. Jesus once met a man who had been a paralytic for 38 years – and asked if he […]
“And it was good”
A few nights ago, I was reading a popular children’s Bible with my kids. We read through the creation story describing how God made the light, separated the waters, formed […]
On Winning the Lottery
What would you do if you won the lottery? With the record-setting $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot announced just last week, many people, including myself, have imagined what they would do […]
Discouraged by Hardship
Flying over the Pacific, I winced to overhear the conversation unfolding behind me. A young lady was explaining, “I did believe in God. But after getting sick and almost dying […]
Christmas in the South
“Mama, it doesn’t feel like Christmas,” my five-year-old daughter declared while drinking hot chocolate on a steamy Sydney morning. “Why?” “Because we’re eating sweets and it’s hot…and we don’t have […]
This is a Fascinating World
I’m reading a book that makes me giggle, tear up, or draw smiley faces at seemingly every other page: Gilead, by Marylinne Robinson. A Pulitzer Prize winner, it is a […]
“What if you’re wrong?”
A girl asked atheist Richard Dawkins one day, “What if you’re wrong?” In typical deprecating fashion, Dawkins turned the question back to the girl, “But what if you are wrong?” […]
From Sin and Conversion to Addiction and Recovery
Every week hundreds of thousands of people around the world get together in small groups where they seek help, guidance, and mutual support in dealing with a vast variety of […]
Naturalistic Faith
Scientists have facts; religious people have faith, right? Life is one giant naturalistic process with no need for God—a big bang, stars forming, planets coalescing, continents drifting, life generating, and […]
Wondering Fair 