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5 Shares 1 1 1 1 More A couple years ago, the subscription sign-up for www.BeliefsoftheHeart.com stopped working. Apparently, it had died without telling me. It accepted the entry of readers’ name and email address—everything looked fine—except it didn’t create a subscription or send out links to new articles. It had been comatose for months. […]
Years ago I had lunch with a client distraught over his wife’s recent death from cancer. He sighed, “I just can’t believe God would allow such suffering.” My client was personalizing an age-old philosophical question: How can an all-powerful and all-good God allow suffering? The argument goes: “Either he is good but not powerful or powerful but not good.” There are reasonable answer to the question, and there is a time and place for debate; in that moment I just listened. But in the last few years, I’ve heard various versions of my client’s cry that are less valid. Unlike
5 Shares 1 1 1 1 More I went to school with a young woman who scratched little marks inside her Bible to keep score of how many people she had converted. She showed me her totals every few months. I can still see those little tally marks, just like WWII pilots scratched their kills …
4 Shares 1 1 1 More While in middle school, I attended a church retreat in the middle of January. The temperature was five degrees below zero (-20° C). With friends I crossed a low bridge that spanned a four-foot-deep stream. We wrestled a bit, and I fell off the bridge into the stream. I …
4 Shares 1 1 1 More A month ago, my wife and I heard a sermon during a weekend trip to New Mexico. The vacation was great. The sermon was horrible. The story was Jesus cleansing the temple. The topic was anger. The pastor described our range of anger (from annoyance to rage) and our …
Last September I shared about being diagnosed with kidney cancer. I waited more than a month before posting, mostly to avoid anyone’s pity. (Come on, I can’t be the only one who dodges pity.) But I shared to be honest about my response to my cancer. Many …
Most of my high school friends were obsessed with college-prep, extra-curricular activities, and jobs. Except for one friend. Like a lion, he could sniff out a wounded schoolmate from a thousand yards. And like a lamb, he sat with them in their grief. One day we heard a lecture on handling pain. Much of the class …
Most of my high school friends were obsessed with college-prep, extra-curricular activities, and jobs. Except for one friend. Like a lion, he could sniff out a wounded schoolmate from a thousand yards. And like a lamb, he sat with them in their grief. One day we heard a lecture on handling pain. Much of the class …
Spiritual retreats have significantly impacted my life. During a retreat, something shifts in my heart, like a ratchet rotates it one way and it won’t twist back. In a concentrated time of prayer and reflection, I connect with God again, and I see the world with a new set of eyes. I like attending retreats, …
Spiritual retreats have significantly impacted my life. During a retreat, something shifts in my heart, like a ratchet rotates it one way and it won’t twist back. In a concentrated time of prayer and reflection, I connect with God again, and I see the world with a new set of eyes. I like attending retreats, …
Years ago I created a plan that takes me through all the Psalms three times a year by reading about twenty verses a day. (You can download a copy of the plan here.) I begin my prayer times by meditating on those verses from a psalm. But my plan means that three times a year …
Years ago I created a plan that takes me through all the Psalms three times a year by reading about twenty verses a day. (You can download a copy of the plan here.) I begin my prayer times by meditating on those verses from a psalm. But my plan means that three times a year …
Over thirty years ago, I stumbled upon a 60 Minutes episode in which Mike Wallace interviewed an MIT computer science nerd. He had a tiny keyboard strapped to his forearm and something like a virtual reality headset strapped over his eyes. The grad student claimed that future technology (remember, this was sometime in the 1980’s) …
Over thirty years ago, I stumbled upon a 60 Minutes episode in which Mike Wallace interviewed an MIT computer science nerd. He had a tiny keyboard strapped to his forearm and something like a virtual reality headset strapped over his eyes. The grad student claimed that future technology (remember, this was sometime in the 1980’s) …
My family moved to Detroit the summer between my first and second grade. Tommy was the first friend I met. Like me, his dad was a pastor; but unlike me, his mother felt that any kind of punishment was evil. Tommy’s mother once caught us smoking cigarette butts behind their church. (How could we have …
My family moved to Detroit the summer between my first and second grade. Tommy was the first friend I met. Like me, his dad was a pastor; but unlike me, his mother felt that any kind of punishment was evil. Tommy’s mother once caught us smoking cigarette butts behind their church. (How could we have …
A few months ago, I mentioned that I had been diagnosed with kidney cancer. The treatment involved five uncomfortable procedures, but the recovery was less painful than many suffer. A friend teased me, “You had the best cancer in the world. It was reasonably safe, you got an ‘I am a cancer survivor’ pin, and …
In many Christian circles there is controversy over the use (or even the existence) of many spiritual gifts. But almost everyone agrees that one gift has been overlooked for too long, and fortunately it is making a comeback with a vengeance, and that gift is sparketin. Sparketin is the holy marketing of ministries, celebrity pastors, …
In many Christian circles there is controversy over the use (or even the existence) of many spiritual gifts. But almost everyone agrees that one gift has been overlooked for too long, and fortunately it is making a comeback with a vengeance, and that gift is sparketin. Sparketin is the holy marketing of ministries, celebrity pastors, …
I’ve used my Scripture Meditation Plan for decades. It begins with a psalm of the day, and last Thursday’s was Psalm 37. It is best known for this one sentence: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (And this isn’t coming from a used car salesman.) A …
I’ve used my Scripture Meditation Plan for decades. It begins with a psalm of the day, and last Thursday’s was Psalm 37. It is best known for this one sentence: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (And this isn’t coming from a used car salesman.) A …
Four weeks ago, my doctor told me that recent tests indicate a high likelihood I have kidney cancer. The tests were the result of an appointment I made because I felt run down. I thought I should take a sleep test or maybe a melatonin. Cancer was the furthest thing from my mind. Since then, …
Four weeks ago, my doctor told me that recent tests indicate a high likelihood I have kidney cancer. The tests were the result of an appointment I made because I felt run down. I thought I should take a sleep test or maybe a melatonin. Cancer was the furthest thing from my mind. Since then, …
Elisabeth Elliot is best known for being a widowed-missionary, speaker, adjunct professor, and author of over twenty books. She is least known for her one and only novel, No Graven Image. It’s a book about twenty-five-year-old Margaret, a linguist who gives up family, money, and marriage to be a missionary in South America. She works …
Elisabeth Elliot is best known for being a widowed-missionary, speaker, adjunct professor, and author of over twenty books. She is least known for her one and only novel, No Graven Image. It’s a book about twenty-five-year-old Margaret, a linguist who gives up family, money, and marriage to be a missionary in South America. She works …
I dislike Hallmark Holidays. Yet I love to give flowers to my wife on Valentine’s day, and I like to honor my parents on Mother’s and Father’s Day (after all, they put up with my innumerable character deficiencies). But I’ve never once posted an article about those holidays. Last Father’s Day I saw a dozen …
I dislike Hallmark Holidays. Yet I love to give flowers to my wife on Valentine’s day, and I like to honor my parents on Mother’s and Father’s Day (after all, they put up with my innumerable character deficiencies). But I’ve never once posted an article about those holidays. Last Father’s Day I saw a dozen …