⬨Six Ways that Christianity answers the Problem of Evil
The ‘problem’ is simply, if God is good, if God is all-powerful, and if evil exists, one of those three premises must be false. We know the challenge more simply in our own hearts: why do we suffer? Why do people die?
I imagine most of my readers have an answer to this, but we often get caught by assuming that the answer we first approach is the only answer the faith offers us. Instead, the Christian faith has a range of ways of answering.
⬨WARNING: Read Instructions Before Use
We’re told to “Read your Bible.” You’ve heard that so many times it doesn’t even register. Yeah, sure, read the Bible. We think we know it, but we don’t. When we face persecution, when doubt creeps in, or when our wisdom falters, then we turn to God. We dust off our Bible and finally dig into the Word. But waiting for a crisis before we study Scripture is a losing strategy. We should all be reading our Bibles more, but why? Here are three reasons.
⬨6 Ways to Bring Light to Heated Talks with Teenagers
While there’s no surefire way to guarantee easier, better conversations with your child, there are some things you can do to help them see you as more of an ally than a threat during these defining years.
⬨Learning in Culture-War Time (video)
Mark Ward in an homage to CS Lewis:
"Should we continue to take an interest in scriptural minutia as we possibly ... tip over from a period of verbal violence to a period of physical violence in our nation? Are we fiddling while Facebook burns? It seems to me that we will not be able to answer these questions until we have put them next to certain other questions which every Christian ought to have settled during more peaceful times."
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