Posts tagged “God”
Have some peace when it makes no sense
I’m starting to get how this blessing works: “The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ…
Worship is praising
What is worship? Okay, I suppose that sounds like a dumb question. It’s what we do in church, plus a little bit at home…
A God of unlimited resources
Every Christian pastor knows of the growing plague of young people just moving in with each other without the benefit of marriage. We’ve heard…
God plays a long game
Try as we might, we can’t see into the future. We can guess, plot probabilities, and make predictions, but our ideas could be totally…
Threefold blessing
The triune nature of God remains a mystery. We admittedly trust and worship a God whom we don’t completely understand. Yet he isn’t eons…
Let there be people
Let there be people God began his work on the sixth day with the creation of land animals, both the wild ones and those…
Early judgment day
Is God’s patience unlimited? In a sense it is. His mercy triumphs over judgment. Our Savior’s blood washes even the dirtiest sinner clean. His…
Does God condone slavery?
The history of the “discovery” and settlement of North America celebrates great triumphs, but it also records dreadful abuses. Bringing Old World diseases to…
When God doesn’t answer your prayers (the way you hoped he would)
As our family started talking about a summer vacation, we had one thing in mind: the blue-green water and flourlike sand of the Caribbean….
The raw power of no
God is very accommodating, and I appreciate him for that. I can’t think of too many prayers he hasn’t answered to my liking or…
If God is good, then where did evil come from?
I want you to trust every word of the Bible . . . . . . even from the very first page. That’s why…
God or science? Wrong question.
Dan Brown, author of the Da Vinci Code and more recently Origin, is one of the most successful authors of all time. According to Brown’s own admission,…