(The graphic above was taken from the cover image of A Man Like No Other, art by Murry Whiteman with text by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings) It’s hard to imagine that these words would describe the most authentic personification of love to ever live on this planet, but this is how Isaiah foretold it: “He … Continued
How we answer the central question of why, if God is good, do we suffer, will radically affect how we see God and the world around us.
The sacred space where vows are repeated, prayers are prayed, and loved ones are remembered chronicles the life events of its inhabitants. The interior of this sanctuary has made a few changes; chairs instead of pews, updates, and upgrades. But the one thing that has stayed the same is the cross in the front.
The post below is an excerpt from my book Job and the Problem of Suffering. In the Epilogue of the book, after God’s revelation to Job, Job was forced to reconsider his entire situation. After the …
Jesus promised us so much joy and victory following him that it can be disorienting to encounter enduring times of pain and suffering. I’ve known many followers of Jesus who wrestle more with the perplexity of how God could have “allowed” them to suffer than the suffering itself would have demanded. It at least adds … Continued
Glancing around we see evil and suffering. Where the goodness? Yet perhaps we glimpse the goodness of God in suffering as nowhere else.
We needn’t be embarrassed, or feel guilty, that we grieve the loss of our pets or want to see them again.
In a new heartwarming Christmas movie currently available from Pure Flix called Moonrise, Granger Smith makes his acting debut as a former country singer, Will Brown, who has pushed away his family, fame, and faith following his wife’s untimely death. Struggling mightily from his loss, Brown grieves alone in his own personal darkness until he finds strength, forgiveness, and the will to live again from his daughter and a horse trainer who befriends him.
Honestly, I am not always excited when God brings the theme of the coming year for me as I pray on it in December. It is almost never something I expect (or frankly, want) and I sometimes get a bit nervous about how He’s going to bring it forth over the next year. So, with the upcoming year when th
In my previous post on The God Who Suffers – Part 1, I wrote that the God of the Old Testament is a God who chooses to identify himself with his people in their suffering. The view that God c…
