Posts from October 2024
Failure Happens Slowly before it Happens Suddenly
“We’re no longer surprised when we see a catastrophic moral failure. Quite often, we ask ourselves, “How did this happen?” We begin to look at the circumstances that led to the failure and try to figure things out. Most of the time, the failure has been in the works for decades. Seeds began to grow much earlier that have finally grown big enough for everyone to see. Moral failure is rarely an event. It’s more of a slow process that…
Why a Good God Commanded the Israelites to Destroy the Canaanites
“When I was an atheist, I loved causing Christians to doubt God. It was fun for me. One of my favorite tactics was to get them to question God’s goodness. I thought that if I could cause them to doubt God’s goodness, I could eventually get them to doubt God’s existence. To drive a wedge between God and goodness, I’d point to God’s command to the Israelites to “utterly destroy” every person living in the Canaanite cities God was giving…
10 Ideas for Better Conversations
“Most of us would like to learn how to have better conversations with those around us. We would like the awkward conversations to be less awkward. We would like the great ones to be more frequent. For people who know Jesus Christ, we want these great conversations even more because our words are the primary means of coming together, and we are destined for an eternity of fine conversations. The problem is that if asked, most of us would have…
Our Greatest Tool for Reaching the West Again
“We need to keep sharing the gospel, but we also need to point to the evidence of its truthfulness. How can we prove it? In one sense, it’s impossible to satisfy a person’s questions or doubts about the truthfulness of the gospel message (at least until they experience it). But we can point to one thing in particular as proof: our fellowship with one another. And this just might be our greatest tool for reaching the West again.” Read more…