Did God create Evil? At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the first class, every semester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade them and mock their statement of faith. One semester, he asked the question...
In a previous blog we talked about the problem of evil in the world, so I won’t re-hash that here. Instead, this week I’m going to focus on how evil came into the world to begin with.When the world was created, everything was perfect! Just imagine it - no sickness, no death, no evil people,...
One of the most difficult and most critical times of my life was just about 4 years ago when I made the decision to leave all of the things I was comfortable with in central Pennsylvania and move to Findlay, Ohio to begin my pursuit of the Master of Divinity degree from Winebrenner Theological...
For three of my four years in college, I ate in the cafeteria. (I much prefer people preparing my food for me rather than doing it myself!) My friends and I had a joke that whenever a large group of people was leaving, such as when class time was approaching, there was a “mass exodus”...
Hopefully, you read the title and are instantly as intrigued as I was the first time the thought popped into my mind. To be honest, the thought came to my mind as I was listening to a popular old hymn. In the song “I Love to Tell the Story”, the last verse includes the following words:...
Evangelism. A word that has strong feelings for many (if not all) Christians. In some, it invokes good feelings of spreading God’s love and being saved; in others, it conjures up nightmares of being forced to awkwardly share the gospel message. What do you think of when you hear the word...
You might be familiar with the phrase "from here to eternity". It's fairly popular around weddings and was even a popular country music love song for a very short time a decade or so ago. The problem with the phrase is that it literally makes no sense. The only correct way of saying...
I have never been a person to participate in long events. In high school, I ran track and even though I wasn’t the fastest athlete on the track, I was always in the short distances like the 100 meter dash or the 200 meters. I would be a part of a relay team like the 4x100 or the 4x200....
Eternity... wow, that sounds like a really long time... oh wait, it is! Eternity is from a Latin word that literally means “everlasting” or “enduring forever.” Something that is eternal has no beginning and no end.Eternity is one of those words we have a tendency to use lightly in our...
“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he...
