There’s an unrelenting cause of teenage depression that doesn’t get enough attention and only Christianity can solve: a sudden revelation that one day they will die. Now, I don’t mean the prospect of their death troubles all teens. Many teens view their deaths as so far off as to be able to ignore. But for […]
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If Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates, who alternate between who is the richest man in the world, told you that if you did not eat anything for a while and kept it to yourself that he would reward you, would you take him up on it? I’ve asked a lot of people this
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My last post was How God Can Use COVID-19 to Bless Us. In this post I’ll offer steps to find peace during the pandemic. Look Away First, although it’s hard not to watch the news which so often seems like a slow-motion train wreak (I cannot look, but I cannot look away!), we shouldn’t spend
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Not long after a famous Christian leader’s son took his life, I was speaking at a church in Carlsbad, California, on “Crusades, Inquisitions, Witch-hunts, Slavery, and the Oppression of Women.” After my presentation, I took questions and the first question was from a slender, 40 something brunette. She asked, “Can a Christian commit suicide and
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In the last two posts we’ve seen that God uses suffering to protect us, and we’ve seen that God uses suffering to purify us. In this post, we come to an often underappreciated aspect of how God uses suffering in our lives for our good: God uses suffering to prove us. Proverbs 17:3 says, “The
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In my last post, we saw how God uses suffering to protect us from future harm. Related to that, in this post we’ll see how God uses suffering to purify us. This, of course, is folly to the non-Christian. Only those who, as Jesus said, “hunger and thirst after righteousness” (Matthew 5:6) will understand this
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As I mentioned in my second post on suffering, for us to triumph in suffering we need to know what God is seeking to accomplish in and through us by our suffering. If we don’t know why we’re suffering, then suffering will be insufferable. But it’s amazing what people can endure if they think suffering
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One thing confusing many Christians is the origin of suffering. In my last post I explained the inevitability of suffering. But why do we suffer in the first place? Many Christians see suffering as contrary to God’s plan for their lives. Indeed, I grew up involved with Campus Crusade for Christ, now Cru, and I
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One thing is clear: unless we die young and suddenly, all of us are going to endure suffering. This is true because, as I’ve said many times, only one thing is going to prevent you from watching absolutely every person you know die from murder, accident, or disease, and that will be your own death
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