Suffering Because You Are a Bad Person?
One of the most common misconceptions in Christianity is that people suffer because they have sinned. While we do find evidence of this view in… Read More »Suffering Because You Are a Bad Person?
One of the most common misconceptions in Christianity is that people suffer because they have sinned. While we do find evidence of this view in… Read More »Suffering Because You Are a Bad Person?
It has been about a month since I posted here so I wanted to give an update. As I mentioned in my previous post, which… Read More »A Life Worth Living: Beauty, Rage, and Hope
I sent this out as a newsletter, but after such a loving and wonderful response, I figured I would post it here. My favorite verse… Read More »Fleeing the Darkness of Rock Bottom
The end is near, everyone! Judgment Day is coming! How many times have we heard this? Evangelicals possess a romantic infatuation with the end times.… Read More »The Amos Project: Judgment Day is Coming
Where does your help come from? This is the question begged in the New International Version’s rendering of Psalm 121:1. Odds are, it won’t take… Read More »Psalm 121: From Where Will Help Come?
If I fall again, will it be the end? I know it’s wrong, you think I’m strong, but I just pretend Is it takin’ over,… Read More »From the Heart: Jacob’s Ladder, God’s Promise, and Hope
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you… Read More »What Does Jeremiah 29:11 Really Mean?
After the last two posts, I needed a break from discussing the political nature of the church. It aggravates me to no end. Seeing how… Read More »The Problem of Suffering is Not Dead
As Living by the Logos holds, the problem of suffering is addressed in every book of the traditional canon of the Bible. The prophets, major… Read More »The Amos Project: An Introduction to the Prophet of Doom
“Why? Why do we suffer?Are we alive, here just to hurt?Inside pain is the author,Something to hide,Nothing to gain.” (Demon Hunter, “Chemicals” from Exile, 2022… Read More »Theodicy: Why We Should Critically Examine the Scriptures