Trial & Execution This story needs no introduction. Its emblem is worn around necks, worked in stained glass, and sculpted outside of churches. After three years of storytelling and laughter, righteous anger and proclaiming grace and justice wherever he goes, Jesus finds himself mocked and hated at Golgotha, the Place…
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Silence
There is a song that can easily bring a tear to the eye. Composed to commemorate Kristallnact, the piece takes its lyrics from a poem scrawled on the wall of the secret room where an unknown Jew hid during the Holocaust. “I believe in the sun even when it is…
Get Even
Get Even Could you forgive someone who murdered your entire family? After she survived imprisonment and torture in concentration camps during World War II, Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom became a writer and speaker, traveling around the world speaking about her experiences and how God had helped her survive, heal,…
Integrity
November 4, 2016 will see the release of the movie Hacksaw Ridge - the story of Desmond Doss, an army medic who refused to carry a gun because of his strongly held beliefs that God did not want him to kill or harm anyone. He wanted to serve his country…
Theodicy (Many Waters)
THEODICY (Many Waters) Why does God allow suffering? In the 3rd century BC, the Greek Stoic philosopher Epicurus wrote: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then…