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Where Is God in Suffering? Suffering usually ambushes us. Things seem fine, and suddenly we get a bad case of the flu, we're thrown into grief over the loss of a loved one, or we start a series of painful t...

A God Big Enough Are we going to choose the answer of God or gods? The difficulty with gods instead of God is that limited gods are not big enough. To have an adequate answer of a personal beginning, we nee...

In Matthew 22, when someone asked Jesus Christ, almighty God incarnate, what is the most important command in the entire Old Testament, he didn't hesitate in his answer. Recalling Deuteronomy 6:5 Jesus replies...

John Stott is well known as an evangelist, preacher and writer, and a major influence of contemporary evangelicalism. But he was also a passionate bird-watcher. As a child, he collected butterflies. But, in th...

A Daily Staple Right now I have one breakfast food: oatmeal and almond butter. This is pretty much what I eat every morning—or at least, every morning where I have time between waking up and making the two-...

Q: What does it mean to be sanctified? A: To be sanctified is to have your faith simplified, clarified, and deepened. You need God. You know God. You love God. You see life, God, yourself, others more truly...

Many people are afraid that when they die they're going to be immersed in darkness. After all, when you close your eyes, it's dark. And when we see a person who is dead, his or her eyes are closed. So it's eas...

Why Meet in Person? Over the past few months, most churches have stopped meeting in person. A global pandemic, government regulations, and a desire to serve each other and society have kept us from gatherin...

Many people claim various places are sacred. In a recent family trip out west, we visited the sacred grounds of the Black Hills. Several years before we visited our nation's military cemetery, Arlington Nation...