The final pages of The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name: One day, John knew, Heaven would come down and mend God’s broken world and make it our true, perfect home once again. And he knew, in some…
Why?
In the context of life’s most difficult moments, we want to know “why?” We might at as well ask to to pluck the planet Mars from the heavens between our thumb and forefinger and flatten it between our hands like…
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…
Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ
I haven’t yet read Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ, but I’ve ordered it. J. Todd Billings, the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, describes his…
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…
Ask “How Long?” Instead of “Why?”
Interacting with the problem of suffering, Christopher J.H. Wright writes: Whereas we often ask “Why?” people in the Bible more often asked “How long?” Their tendency was not to demand that God give an explanation for the origin of evil…
How Was Job Right Even When He Was Wrong?
In our series on Job, A Journey With Job, I continue to be helped by Christopher Ash’s commentary. Ash helps us understand how Job could be considered right even when he was wrong. In Job 9-10, Job is in agony.…
This is Just the Beginning of the Beginning
I am thankful for the ways that the Internet and social media allow others to suggest worship music to accompany sermon series. My youngest sister, Erin (see her blog here), suggested this song to go along with our Job series…