We almost disappeared

For people who have no interest in God, what is life, really? They live and die and end up as names on gravestones, which after three generations mean very little to anyone. It’s as if they never existed. But that wasn’t what God had in mind at all. He made humans in his own image, [...]

The marvel of God: turning disaster into joy

In “Suffering and death: the magical doorway to salvation” (Feb 4/10), it really is “magical” what’s happened to us. Sin got a foothold on this planet, producing a rot in the human mind we could not reverse, but God not only cured the rot he transformed it into our salvation, too. Try doing that with [...]

Suffering and death: the magical doorway to salvation

So, why do we have devastating natural disasters? Because, Paul writes in Romans 8:20-21, God subjected the entire creation to “futility” and “bondage to decay.” For now life on this planet is a brute. But why would a loving God do that to us – leave us stranded in a mess of suffering and death? [...]

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