Mountaintop Musings

June 2010 Week before last a dear friend of mine from northwest Arkansas and I headed west for the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.  For many years we backpacked there together, but it’d been around 5-6 years since we’d been able to go together. So, our anticipation of...

On Letting God be God

June 2010 Fifth In Five-Week Series on “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering There once was a young college studentwho’d recently graduated and desperately wanted to be sold out toGod.  So, he went into his room, sat down in the middle of thefloor, took out a piece of...

“Why Do ‘Good People’ Suffer?”

June 2010 Second In Five-Week Series on “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering” Like Death, it’s no respecter of persons.  The rich suffer, as do the poor.  Both the educated and the uneducated experience it.  And, everyone—regardless of their race, creed or color—know...

Miserable Comforters

June 2010 Third In Five-Week Series on “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering” When the chips are down, there’s really only one Person on whom you can depend. God. How do you trust in Someone you’ve neverseen?  And, how do you retain hope and continue to have...

Where Is God?

May 2010 First In Five-Week Series on “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering” It’s the age-old problem that leads to perplexity and despair. And, it’s one for which there aren’t any answers—UNLESS we approach it in simple, childlike faith and a teachable heart. What...

24/7/365

May 2010 “Don’t worry. I’ve got it all under control.” That’s what the Lord God, the Creator of all that is, is saying to us today. And, even though it may seem to some (even to professing believers) that He’s asleep or MIA (missing-in-action), He’s still very much...