25 Jun How Can We Be Happy If We Have to Wait for What We Want?
There’s a commercial on television now with a singer crooning, “I want it all...
Author: Max Anders
18 Jun How Can We Be Happy if We Live for Others?
Scripture has some intimidating commands and instructions about our relationships with others that could make us wonder if – to be a committed Christian - we might end up just being a doormat for others to walk on. Whoever wishes to be first among you shall...
04 Jun Must We Choose God Over Happiness?!?
When I read the Bible, it often seems backwards. Have you ever had that impression? Some of the things the Bible tells us don't seem, at first glance, to be in our best interests. For example, to save our life we must lose it, to...
27 May Remembering the Ultimate Sacrifice
THE BEST THING WE CAN DO TO HONOR “SACRIFICE” IS TO REMEMBER! (This blog post is coming to you a day early this week, and replaces tomorrow’s normal post. It was an especially popular post that first appeared on Memorial Day 2018.) Christians everywhere should always be...
21 May How Can You Believe God Loves You in Spite of All the Troubles in Your Life?
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...
14 May How Can You Believe God Is Good In Spite Of All The Evil In The World?
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...
07 May How Can You Believe in God in Spite of the Absence of Scientific Proof?
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...
30 Apr So You’ve Embraced an Eternal Perspective… Are You Maintaining It?
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...
23 Apr What Does Easter Have To Do With Anything?
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,...
16 Apr Do You Have an Eternal Perspective?
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...