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What Do You Think, are Angels Present in Church?
In a perplexing passage, Paul says that in worship services a woman “ought to have a symbol of authority over her head, because of the angels.” He is speaking about head coverings concerning which various interpretations have been given–a shawl, a veil, long hair or long hair not let down. Apparently he’s referencing some first… Continue reading
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What Wild Animals Come Rushing at You?
The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it . . . the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in… Continue reading
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A Nagging Question that Prevents Us from Fully Giving Our Hearts to God
Even those of us who have firmly decided to follow Jesus often don’t trust him unconditionally because of one big problem–pain and suffering. We can only trust someone to the extent we believe they are good and therefore have our best interests at heart. We will hold back from fully giving our hearts to God… Continue reading
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A Ridiculous Revelation of God
Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than the almighty God having a lamb-like nature? And yet that’s exactly what we must conclude if, in fact, Jesus reveals the nature of God. He not only died as the lamb of God, he lived as the lamb of God to show us what God is like. This… Continue reading
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Final Judgment: A Remarkable Dream
Shortly after I became a Christian, I had a dream so striking it grips me as strongly today as it did then, almost fifty years ago. In a previous post, we saw that virtually all peoples have seen the world haunted by a numinous presence. However, not all people have seen that presence as good.… Continue reading
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Look at the Cross, Look at the Angels
Two verses before John 3:16, the best known verse of the Bible, Jesus says he will be like the snake Moses lifted up (John 3:14). Jesus alludes here to the Old Testament story where the Israelites were bitten by snakes because of their disobedience. God tells Moses to make a bronze snake, put it up… Continue reading
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If God is Love, Why Can Pain be So Excruciating and So Terrifying?
In my last post, we considered “the problem of pain” as it’s sometimes called. “How can there be so much suffering, evil and pain in a world created and ruled by a loving God?” We saw love must be freely given, that is, we must have free will to choose to love or not. And… Continue reading
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Why is There so Much Suffering if God is in Absolute Control, or is He?
“While everybody was asleep an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat.” Recently, in the middle of the night, Lee Strobel’s interview of Charles Templeton came to mind. Templeton was a Canadian journalist in the 60’s and 70’s, well known for his atheism. He had been a preacher, at one time the pulpit partner… Continue reading