The Word to the World
A little over a decade ago, Paul Froese and Christopher Bader published a book titled America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God—and What That Says About Us. The book reported the findings of a 2005 survey of religious views, which suggested that religious people
The story is told of a psychiatrist who had two sons: the eldest a stark pessimist, the youngest an avid optimist. One Christmas, the good doctor decided to perform a holiday experiment. While his boys slept, he filled his eldest son’s bedroom with beautifully wrapped
When God called Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldeans, he left a pagan lifestyle to serve the living God, who had revealed himself to him. He took with him his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot (Genesis 12:1–5ff). Sometime later, after Yahweh had abundantly
At the risk of sounding hyper-critical, the old adage “time heals” is not true. We can add this advice to the list of well-intentioned yet sentimental errors. Time, in fact, can’t heal for time is merely a measurement of chronological advancement. The hands on the