“This life only comes round once and we only get one go at it, so give it all you’ve got, son – life is what you make it.” But what’s the most anyone can make of this life? What if you grew up in a perfect home full of fun and healthy food, and you [...]
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Christ came to share his joy with us, John 15:11 – and all of it too, 16:24, 17:13. And once we’ve got his joy it’s good forever, no one can take it away from us, 16:22. So this is joy like God experiences joy: it never goes away; it’s constant; it’s what happens all the [...]
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Christ is our life because he is Life. That’s why Paul said in Colossians 1:27 our “hope of glory” is “Christ in us,” because to live the kind of glorious life God had in mind for us, Christ has to live his life in us. He alone is the source of such life. We aren’t, [...]
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Is there any promise in scripture that God will protect us? Yes, 1 John 5:18: “The God-begotten are also the God-protected. The Evil One can’t lay a hand on them” (The Message). Does that mean we’re safe from earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, volcanoes, accidents, terrorists and pandemics? Or that we’ll never break a leg skiing, [...]
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The Bible is sketchy on how our planet formed and whether natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and hurricanes were part of the original plan, or not. Disasters certainly became part of our history because the Earth was reduced to a dark mass of water, Genesis 1:2, and our pockmarked Moon and cratered Earth are visible witness [...]
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For all the chaos that natural disasters like earthquakes cause, we get a glimpse of something wonderful too – of people tearing at the rubble to free those trapped, of help pouring in from all over, and of deep compassion for those who’ve suffered. It’s amazing how people who don’t normally mix together are suddenly [...]
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Natural disasters are usually blamed on God – but why would God purposely create disasters? A lot of religious people, however, believe that’s exactly what God’s doing because, they say, he gets so angry at times at the way we’re behaving that he simply can’t contain himself any longer and he has to vent like [...]
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A natural disaster is usually called an “Act of God,” but rightly so, surely, because God’s the one who created sliding plates that cause massive earthquakes, and it’s he who made the weather systems that stir up hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. We might be partly to blame for lousy weather, true, but volcanoes? It was God [...]
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In John 17:3, Jesus tells us what real life – life you can live forever – is all about; it’s knowing God. But why is knowing God important? Because if we don’t know God we don’t why he made us, do we? And if we don’t know why he made us then we’re running through [...]
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Did Jesus really have to become human and die? Couldn’t God have done it some other way – like give us a billion years in heaven first so we could watch God in action, soak up his love and never want to sin in the first place? Or, if we did sin, why couldn’t God simply [...]
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