Functional Atheism
Remedy lies not in technique but surrender, praying within divine will, rejoicing amid unraveling, trusting unseen hands. From lip-service to lived faith, panic to peace, idolatry to adoration. Release clutched details; the galaxy-Creator governs faithfully.
Jesus Explains The Existence of Good and Evil
Matthew 13:24-30 The Wheat and the Weeds. Jesus tells a parable about how good coexists with evil and describes His plan for resolution.
How To Trust God When We Suffer
The second generation of wilderness Hebrews have looked on their circumstances and decided it does not meet their expectations. They look at their redemption from Egypt and see a rouse that will lead them to a death by starvation and thirst. How could a good God bring us to this awful place?
The Torture of Remembering a Better Past
So when Habakkuk sees the evil going on inside the city walls, and the evil preparing for attack outside the city walls, he asks a valuable and important million dollar question, "God, where are you?". It is an honest question. It is a pertinent question. And it ranks among the preeminent questions human beings ask the Almighty.
How To Ask God Big Questions
The Bible’s answers to difficult questions is going to ask us as believers to make two commitments.
Seeing Life’s Difficulties from Jesus’ Perspective.
Next, we see God’s provision and avenue of rescue from the suffering and brokenness of this world. God tells Moses to construct the bronze serpent and gives instruction to trust as the avenue out of their current state. The application is striking…
Seeing Life’s Difficulties From Jesus’ Perspective
Jesus continues by helping us to see His role in our redemption is not condemnation, rather the inference is that our fallen nature already accomplishes this…
Leviathan
Captain Ahab is a man obsessed with the thing, the White Whale, that changed his life. The White Whale is his nemesis, an uncontrollable element of life that has left him lame and threatened his reality. Now Ahab is intent on destroying the thing that has broken him. Ahab's life was that of a whaler, sea captain and successful merchant. Now he is uprooted, physically changed, and the dominance he felt over his life’s direction is torn and changed by the will and force of an outside entity with a mind of its own. The White Whale intends to destroy Ahab and has the power to do so. (Job 41:10)