Category Archives: Application

In the exploration of the source of the Nile river in the late 1800’s, one explorer quoted a minor chief in central Africa named Comora as saying:  “The good people are all weak:  they are good because they are not … Continue reading →

Lately we have heard a great deal about following “the science” but different persons seem to have different ideas of what constitutes “the science”.  So what is “the science”? I recently was at a church at which the pastor declared … Continue reading →

A woman was lamenting the death of her son in a car accident.  She asks why God did this to her.  A hospital chaplain replies that God did not have anything to do with her son’s death and the woman … Continue reading →

Why did God make us finite?  If he wants us to believe in him, why does he hide himself from us (Isaiah 45:15)?  Why does God, in the words of Orual, the main character in C. S. Lewis’ novel Till … Continue reading →

Sophia Lee raises an issue that impacts us Christians more than is realized.  She asks:  For those of us raised in the Christian community, is our life is so filled with knowledge of the Bible and Christ, and are we … Continue reading →

You will not hear about it much in our church history, but Christians have resorted to violence multiple times when they disagreed on points of theology, even to the extent of killing fellow Christians.  Examples include Athanasius who was “quite … Continue reading →

Our current world situation—the pandemic, the various political upheavals around the world, the loss in confidence in many of our institutions—is inducing anxiety in many people.  What are we to do? In Mathew 6:25-34, Jesus instructs us not to be … Continue reading →

I have heard the story of a church in Germany during WWII which was located near a railroad track that served one of the concentration camps.  Each Sunday morning a train taking Jewish people to the camp passed by the … Continue reading →

The prominent atrocities we have discussed in the past few blogs are no different that occur on a daily basis in our world.  People are starving all the time in our world but Stalin’s use of starvation to kill the … Continue reading →

At church during the Easter Sunday services and while our pastor was preaching on what John had to say about the resurrection, I did some back tracking and read about the crucifixion and burial of Jesus.  What caught my eye … Continue reading →