Sometimes I’m amazed at how dense I can be! I’ve been reading the Bible regularly for the past 40 years, but it was only yesterday that something so elementary struck me that I wondered where my head had been the past four decades. I’ve been bothered recently by what a…
Jesus said that if we will “seek the kingdom of god above all else,” God will give us everything we need.1 If you work hard and do your job well, it’s in your boss’s best interest to notice and reward you with a pay raise or promotion. God thinks that…
Question: When there is a natural disaster like an earthquake or hurricane that claims many lives, some people say that God is judging those people for their sins. Does God really operate that way? Answer: Only God knows why certain events happen to people in one country or area and…
In the middle of math class,one of my second graders made this startling declaration: “There is no God!” Considering that this was a Christian school and Martin was the son of a pastor, I had to wonder how he had suddenly come to this conclusion in my classroom. When asked,…
Within the span of a week, I heard three people say three different things that got me thinking about God’s involvement in my life. Person one said that he didn’t know if God actually cares about what we do, and that He may not be particularly interested in the choices…