The Suffering of God

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shares this brief moment she shared with Holocaust survivor and author, ElieWiesel:

Not long after September ...

Man Unknowingly on the Wrong Side of the Law

Pastor John Beukema writes:

After moving to a new state, I walked into the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my new driver's license. Imagine my ...

Tozer on Elevating Our Concept of God

The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of him— and of ...

Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...

"The Wizard of Oz": Wrong Idea of Majesty

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man arrive at the legendary Emerald City to meet with the Wizard. The Wizard is reputed ...

Tension of Loving and Fearing God

Jerry Bridges, in his book The Joy of Fearing God, describes the healthy tension between loving and fearing God:

In the physical realm there are two opposing ...

The Effect of Seeing God

What's the natural response when you've seen God? You're convicted of sin. "Woe is me, for I am undone." The closer I walk with ...

Satan's Two Big Lies

There are two big lies that Satan has been perpetrating ever since the Garden of Eden. The first is that God is mean, vindictive, a spoilsport whose main ...

Frightening Zeal

David McCullough in his book Mornings on Horseback tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt:

"Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of ...

No Common Voice

I can just come to imagine for myself that a man of more or less my own biological and social composition could have written Hamlet or Lear and gone home ...