Good News For Broken Hearts

John 14

Making Sense Out of Suffering

Having a cross as the symbol of our faith, you would think that Christians need little explanation on suffering.  Yet , even the most righteous man who ever lived, Job, searched for an answer to the atrocities he suffered.

Job

Where Is God In All This?

With the prevalence of evil and the atrocities committed against humankind there are inevitable moments when we are left wondering about the presence of God.

Genesis 1-3, Mark 1 

Is Today The Big Day?

The history of the church is littered with the tombstones of apocalyptic speculators and doomsday predictors; those whose prognostications of the end of the world came and went.  In regard to last things it is our Lord who offers the final word.

Matthew 24-25

ON HYPOCRISY: Toxic Religion

With reverential demeanor, a stained-glass voice, the occasional use of religious jargon such as “eschatology” there is nothing easier to fake than the Christian faith.  Some of the strongest words of Jesus were directed toward those he deemed as hypocrites.

Matthew 23

On Community

The biblical idea of church extends far beyond today’s notion of an architectural structure.  The church is a community of faith living not only in special relationship to God but intimately with fellow believers.

Matthew 18

On Mission

We should not be surprised that as Jesus tells his disciples to pray regarding workers to go out into the harvest, he immediately begins mobilizing them as an answer to is own prayer petition.

Matthew 10