This is post 3 of 3 in the series “I Have a Dream” Anniversary of MLK speech Pro-Human is Better than “Anti-Racist” Redemptive Suffering: The Calling of the Christian REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING, part 2 The Apostle Peter, in his first epistle, writes to the persecuted church, believers suffering for their faith
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “I Have a Dream” Anniversary of MLK speech Pro-Human is Better than “Anti-Racist” Redemptive Suffering: The Calling of the Christian REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING, part 2 Martin Luther King Jr., in his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” given August 28, 1963, spoke
In the midst of the Covid pandemic, as countries respond with different regulations, it’s hard to know how people and governments should react. Some countries lifted restrictions in areas of low infection rates, and increased them in the cities with high rates of infection. Restrictions include social distancing, wearing face
In the days of the Coronavirus, our lives have been changed suddenly and forever. A few weeks ago, people all over the world were settled in the routines of a new year: children in school, parents at work, Christians gathering on Sundays for worship. But for several weeks, something had
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “God, you and the Coronavirus” WRESTLING with God in the Coronavirus God Can Handle Your CORONAVIRUS Anger Self-isolated at home during the Coronavirus storm I have plenty of time to ponder what will come of this, one of the most profound
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Paulita” When Pain Hits Your Faith When Pain Hits Your Faith, part 2 The day before returning to Colombia, we flew to Houston to a hospital renowned for leukemia treatment. They did 40 exams and we had the opportunity to talk
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Paulita” When Pain Hits Your Faith When Pain Hits Your Faith, part 2 When we go through traumatic or crisis situations in life, we always wonder if there is a purpose in all that, or why it happens to us. Pain
We rarely hear a theology of suffering today. What we are hearing more often is a theology of comfort. “Come to Christ and you will be blessed!” “Pray and God will give you a new car!” “Give God $10 and He will give you $100 back!” The prosperity gospel is not the true
Compassion didn’t come out of nowhere. It came to the world from God and His incarnate Son. Mercy is not to be found in Christless world. The standards of a fallen humanity include hardness of heart, cruelty, and malice. The Bible, on the other hand, is a treasure of compassion, as
“Compassion” has become one of a growing number of politicized words (like ‘access’ or ‘diversity’) whose meaning has been corrupted beyond redemption. So writes Thomas Sowell the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution of Stanford University. While I would agree with Sowell that the word has
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