Let’s be honest. If you were a loving parent, and you had a child going through some of the hard things you are going through (or have gone through), wouldn’t you help them if you could? So why doesn’t God help you?!? You do your best to...
If there is a silver bullet against God, it is the problem of pain, suffering and evil in the world. As Peter Kreeft has so powerfully written about on this issue, the problem of evil is the most serious problem in the world. It is also...
It’s almost impossible for me to believe in God. If I wake up in the middle of the night, or early in the morning, and think about God, I think… “How can there be a God?!? I have never seen Him. No one I know has...
Embracing an eternal perspective and maintaining it are two different things. In fact, embracing an eternal perspective is the easy part. Maintaining it is the hard part. To embrace an eternal perspective, we accept – by faith – that we must assess temporal circumstances in light of...
What does Easter have to do with anything? As I write this, Easter was yesterday… the most sacred of all Christian holidays, celebrating the resurrection of Christ. But when you look at how Easter is celebrated, not only in the US, but also around the world,...
Have you ever wondered why God doesn't bless your life more than He does? Have you ever wondered why you pray for bad things to not happen but they happen anyway, and yet you get good things you didn't even pray for? Has life ever...
Last week, we asked the question, “Have you become everything you would like to be?” This week, we ask the follow-up question, “What would it take for you to become everything you would like to be?” Magic? Money? Good luck? Well, there's hope. It doesn't take any of...
What more would you like to be? Would you like to be a better spouse? A better parent? A better friend? Would you like to be more patient? More caring? More self-disciplined? Would you like to be more positive? More resilient? More encouraging? What would you like to be...
Have you ever felt as though you were singled out by God for failure? That you cannot get your life to go the way you want it to, and when you do the things that should fix it, they don’t work? That instead of things...
When I was growing up, at one time there were three teenage boys in our house, ages 14, 16, and 18, each of us thinking we should be “king of the hill.” We would get to “roughhousing,” in the living room, which was not a good...