Category Archives: Evil in the world

Five pillars of life

Teach this to your group.

Each part of the story in combination with the others must become a lens for the way we look at life. Continue reading

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Do we get what we deserve?

Are those who encounter tragedy people whose wickedness had qualified them for it? Continue reading

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What is sin?

Sin spoils the goods, stains the garments. It is a hitch in one’s gait, a wandering from the path, a fragmenting of the whole. Continue reading

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The problem of evil

Are we merely to gag our questions, accept that it’s a mystery, and shut up? Surely we do far more from that?  Continue reading

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Faith and Suffering

I believe that there is a sad back-story to our suffering and a glorious end-story for those whom God loves. Yet pain in this life is often hard to reconcile with God’s love and power. Continue reading

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Hope large enough to overcome death

Where is there hope sufficiently encompassing to enable us to know that all our pain and suffering has not been in vain? Continue reading

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Five parts to our story

If we hope to live well in a painfully complicated and broken world… Continue reading

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Searching for a plausible worldview

What way of seeing things corresponds most with reality and does not contradict what I clearly know to be true? Continue reading

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America – a place to live or to die?

It seems like all our public places are vulnerable. Grade schools, universities, theaters, malls, workplaces, churches, grocery stores… Many foreigners have begun to view America, not as a place to live, but a place to die.  Continue reading

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Do you think they are worse sinners?

Do people encounter a fates in this life (whether good or bad) based on actions in a former life? How should we read the outcomes when people are senselessly murdered or seemingly victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Continue reading

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