The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived by Andreas Kostenberger and Justin Taylor offers an accessible overview of Holy Week. This book would make a useful resource for families and…
Incurable Cancer and the Problem of Good
Suffering with incurable cancer, J.T. Billings points out that the way we see and interpret life must account for goodness and beauty as well as suffering. J. Todd Billings is a theologian who has been diagnosed with incurable cancer. In…
One Can’t Feign Ignorance of God
Calvin on the sensus divinitatis (or sense of the divine): There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to beyond controversy. To prevent anyone from taking refuge in the pretense…
The Unlikely Conversion of Rosario Butterfield
It seemed more likely that Harper Lee would publish a sequel than that Rosario Butterfield would convert to Christianity, and yet . . . Below Rosario describes why her conversion could be described as particularly unlikely. Why Rosaria Butterfield Calls…
The Moral Argument: How the Realities of Right and Wrong Prove God
Resurrection: When Everything Sad Becomes Untrue
The hope of the resurrection is the sure promise that, for the believer, all that is sad and hurts will become untrue. These quotes help us meditate on our blessed hope. From The Lord of the Rings series: “Gandalf! I…
John Frame: The Great Question Confronting Modern Humanity
Which is fundamental to reality: persons or impersonal structures? Your answer to this question determines whether you see life as a great, beautiful adventure, or if you are living in a gray world of particle collisions. You will have to…
The Real Problem of Evil
The reality that so few struggle with the problem of evil is a major warning sign that many are not considering the reality of a sovereign and good God. John Stott wrote, “The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes the single…
Why Did God Allow Satan to Harm Job and His Family?
Why would God allow Satan to harm Job? Is God placing side bets while we battle cancer or lose loved ones? Here are some preliminary thoughts in response to those questions. Any study of the book of Job raises questions…
Four Questions Every Thinking Human Being Must Answer
If we are to take our heads out of the sand, and hit the hard questions head-on, so that we can be prepared for suffering, as we plan to do in the book of Job on Sunday, then we need…