What To Do With Unbelief
July 1, 2020
Sitting on the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee, Jesus taught people in a talk known as the Sermon on the Mount. Found in the Bible book of Matthew, chapter 5, he assigns blessings to people with curious personality or situational traits, and in some cases, what we'd call flaws. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3) is where Jesus begins and it’s where each of our own spiritual journeys, our relationship with God, starts.
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He is known for being strong willed, stubborn, and doubting. His name: Thomas, one of the twelve disciples who walked with Jesus. Mentioned a dozen different places in the New Testament, Thomas is usually thought of as a "show me" sort of person, short on faith and long on doubt. But, is this characterization really accurate? Or was Thomas a perpetual pessimist, the kind of person who describes the partially filled glass of water as "half empty" instead of "half full?"
June 30, 2020
Parenting is one of the most tedious, even scary, things that a person ever does in his lifetime. Walk a tight wire over Niagara Falls, free-fall out of an airplane, climb Mt. Everest, or hang glide over Tokyo and you are apt to walk away from it. But this business of parenting can do you in for sure. It comes with no guarantees, and there are no return lines where you can trade in a kid and start over.
June 29, 2020
William Gladstone, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, spoke of the Old Testament book of Psalms, saying, “All the wonders of Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than is this simple book of the Psalms.” No book in all the literature of the world is as remarkable as these 150 selections grouped in five books. But many people have never learned what a choice anthology of poetry, history, prose, and prophecy is found in this book. They have yet to discover the rainbow of emotions and feelings found in the Psalms.
June 26, 2020
Did you ever hear the old joke church people used to like to tell about each other? It goes like this: To live above with saints we love; oh that will be glory. But to live below with saints we know; well that’s a different story! There is truth to the corny humor. It can be hard to live well with one another on this journey called life. When a crisis hits, it can seem almost impossible.
June 25, 2020
When stress erupts and disruption turns life upside down, each of us handles the storm differently. Mental health advocate, Kay Warren, points out that, in a crisis, we all might be battling the same storm, but not everyone has the same emotional resources with which to weather it. If a storm of tumultuous times hits when you are in a relatively healthy place emotionally and financially, you might be able to make it through like someone aboard a stable yacht. Others may find themselves rowing mightily in a leaky rowboat or worse, down in the waves, desperately clinging to only a log.
June 24, 2020
When Simon and Chana Taub decided to disagree and couldn’t resolve their conflicts, a judge ordered a wall built right down the center of their three-story house, separating the angry couple from each other. I’m not sure whether or not the judge had heard the story about Solomon’s decision to divide a child down the middle, thereby finding out which one of the women was actually the mother of the child. But I do know that when hearts are divided, those same walls divide the hearts of children as well.
June 23, 2020
“Far apart under one roof,” was the title of the story telling of the bitter dispute between Chana Taub and her husband Simon. In this unbelievable saga, repeated countless times around the world, after 27 years of marriage and four children, Chana and Simon’s love turned to hatred.
June 22, 2020
Out of the mouths of babes comes the unvarnished, plain truth. Of that you can be sure. I thought of that when I took my little grandson to the park. Andrew was then a two-year old full of smiles framed by a few baby teeth, a little bit of fuzz on his head, and glasses to correct a vision problem.
June 19, 2020
You’ve heard people say it: “I’m spiritual, but not religious.” Whether it was a celebrity, your next-door neighbor or even your adult child, this is how one quarter of Americans view themselves, according to the Pew Research Center. [1] But not just Americans--Prince Charles and one-fifth of people in the UK fit into this category, according to Professor Michael King from University College London. The definition of the term is broad; it can include a moment of transcendence while watching a sunset, living in the moment or using meditation in an attempt to stop chattering thoughts.
[1] Castella, Tom de. “Spiritual, but Not Religious.” BBC News. BBC, January 3, 2013. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20888141.
June 18, 2020
Not all doubt is bad. Some of the world’s leading skeptics of Christianity have eventually become its leading advocates. Such a person was C. S. Lewis, the late professor of Medieval English at Cambridge University. A combination of issues--the horror of war, seeing some of his best friends die, wondering about the hereafter--made Lewis first doubt his faith, then search for answers. He found them, too, in the pages of Scripture. What’s good about doubt? Consider the following five observations, and then make your own decision.
June 17, 2020
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