What’s Missing in Your Life?
What's Missing in Your Life? I imagine that's a question many people ask. More than once. But how often do we give ourselves a good answer? ...
In the beginning, but which beginning?
Lots of people recognize the words, In the beginning, as the first three words in the Bible. Or, more properly, as the first three words in the Torah. But how many people ask, which beginning? ...
Can we really ask – God where are you?
Can we really ask - God where are you? Not only can we ask, someone already did. Some from a long time ago. We even have God's answer ...
In the beginning God created … (what? when?)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. We kind of know what the earth is. But what is/are the heavens? And was the beginning really "The Beginning?" Or was it the beginning of something, rather than the beginning of everything? ...
Did God really create everything in six 24-hour days?
Did God really create everything in six 24-hour days? Is it seven days of creation or seven creation days? Is that wordplay? Or is there really a difference? The two are not at all the same. And they make a huge difference in whether or not the so-called seven days ...
Psalm 31 – Let their lying lips be silenced
Let their lying lips be silenced. Yes, it's a line in Psalm 31. And David had his reason for writing it. These days, almost anything anyone says could be the target of that thought. There was a time when truth meant something. Not, it has almost no real meaning. Similarly, ...
Does my undetectable cancer test really mean God is good?
When something positive happens, some Christians have a tendency to respond with "God is good". I got some of these replies after texting about the results of my first blood test after radiation treatment for cancer. I don't mean to knock the thought. But I often wonder, what would the ...
My nightmare the day before getting radiation treatment results
I had my first nightmare about cancer in the three and a half years since I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. And it was the day before getting radiation treatment results. At least, it seems like it should be called a nightmare. I mean, it was about cancer. And yet, ...
Do you want to believe the Bible is true?
Some people ask, "How do we know the Bible is true?" Some Christians will say, "Of course it is". But hey - that's not really an acceptable answer for someone who's asking, "Is the Bible true?", is it? My first thought after hearing that is, "Do you want to believe ...
Screwtape Letter #2. Discussion Guide. “Your patient has become a Christian”
Things sounded rather well for Screwtape and Wormwood at the end of the first letter. But no letter that has "I note with grave displeasure" can be good. Add to that the comment that "your patient has become a Christian", and we know right away, Screwtape Letter #2 is not ...
