I remember clearly in the summer of 1985 when I first met Kim. She took my breath away. I was entranced. I couldn’t get her out of my mind. Over the next few weeks I tried to talk to her, but I’m sure I was just stammering, not really knowing what to say. So I…
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Just Who is God, Part 2
Just who is God, really? That’s a question we started looking at last week. If we’re going to place our eternity in God’s hands, and if we’re going to pattern our lives around his teachings, then we should know as much about him as possible. God has revealed to us everything we need to know…
Read MoreThe Omnipotence of God
We’ve all experienced fear at some point in our lives. If you’ve ever heard a dentist say to his assistant, “Would you mind taking the battery out of the smoke detector? I’ve got to do some serious drilling here,” you know what fear is. I have a fear of bridges. Whenever I drive across a…
Read MoreGod is Great; But is He Good?
When I was a child, I loved to read comic books. Marvel, DC, it didn’t matter, I read them all. Of course, I had my favorites, but one superhero that almost everyone liked was Superman. He had super-strength, super-speed, x-ray vision, and he was invincible. But sometimes I would think, what if Superman, with all…
Read MoreThe God of Perfect Justice
Many people think of God as some kindly, jolly old St. Nicholas, the man upstairs who loves everyone and wants everyone to be happy all the time. Whatever you want to do, whoever you want to be is fine with him. Just love one another and make people happy the way he does, and you’ll…
Read MoreThe God of Perfect Love
Merry Christmas! It’s finally here, the day we celebrate the birth of a little baby in the tiny village of Bethlehem all those years ago. Every December, I sit down and watch all of the old Christmas TV specials I watched as a kid. You know, shows like “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed…
Read MoreThe Providence of God
Does God have a plan? Are the things happening around me part of some grand scheme of God’s? Or is this world spinning out of control? Those are legitimate questions at any time, but especially today. It’s easy to feel like things are out of control. But are they? As we continue our look at…
Read MoreThe God of Wonder
In October, we had the great fortune of joining our daughter, Tori, on a visit to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. It was an amazing trip, probably highlighted by watching bison walk so close to the car that we could have reached out and touched them. I didn’t do that. I wanted to! But…
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