Why Did God Allow This Tragedy? 07/31/2018 How many times have you heard someone say, "There is a God in heaven!" after something works out the way they wanted--as if it would be a proof there wasn't a God in heaven if things didn't turn out the way they preferred. One of the reasons people frequently give for why they reject God has to do with the existence of evil. To this day I still hear people say things like, “Where was God on 9/11?” There are a lot of good answers we could get to that but aside from those answers, think for a
How many times have you heard someone say, "There is a God in heaven!" after something works out the way they wanted--as if it would be a proof there wasn't a God in heaven if things didn't turn out the way they preferred. One of the reasons people frequently give for why they reject God has to do with the existence of evil. To this day I still hear people say things like, “Where was God on 9/11?” There are a lot of good answers we could get to that but aside from those answers, think for a
Dreams 05/10/2018 What should you do when you have a troubling dream? Or an immoral dream? Or any dream that captivates your attention after waking? There are two kinds of dreams: 1) Prophetic dreams (dreams that are given as a direct message from God) 2) Non-prophetic dreams (dreams that are not a message from God) The vast majority of dreams are in the second category. Everyone dreams every night, but only a handful of isolated instances in Scripture describe dreams that were actual messages from God. In
What should you do when you have a troubling dream? Or an immoral dream? Or any dream that captivates your attention after waking? There are two kinds of dreams: 1) Prophetic dreams (dreams that are given as a direct message from God) 2) Non-prophetic dreams (dreams that are not a message from God) The vast majority of dreams are in the second category. Everyone dreams every night, but only a handful of isolated instances in Scripture describe dreams that were actual messages from God. In
No Batteries (How to Resist the Intense Pleasure of Sin) 02/07/2018 When a person is enslaved by some appetite of the flesh, especially sexual sin, and you tell that person that fellowship with God would be more satisfying, it’s very hard for that person to believe. The pleasure of sexual sin is so intense, it’s hard to imagine how a time of prayer or Scripture reading even be in the same ballpark of fulfillment. But the truth is, experiencing the presence of God really is more satisfying. Suppose there is a guy in your family who has some kind of
When a person is enslaved by some appetite of the flesh, especially sexual sin, and you tell that person that fellowship with God would be more satisfying, it’s very hard for that person to believe. The pleasure of sexual sin is so intense, it’s hard to imagine how a time of prayer or Scripture reading even be in the same ballpark of fulfillment. But the truth is, experiencing the presence of God really is more satisfying. Suppose there is a guy in your family who has some kind of