God’s Story
How Do You Square a Good God with Suffering?
Christians are always talking about how much God loves us and how good he is. So, where was he when my three year old was dying of cancer? If he’s so good why didn’t he answer me when I asked him to stop my pain? If God cares for this world why does he allow…
Read MoreThe Bible: What Is It?
Say the word “Bible” and you get a bunch of different reactions as varied as the people who respond. “I hate it when people say, ‘The Bible says.’” “You know, I’ve heard people quote stuff from there as if it’s the magic solution or answer to really serious problems or hard questions. It just comes…
Read MoreThe Cross: What’s with That?
Did Jesus really die on a cross and then rise from the dead? Isn’t that some kind of spiritual metaphor? Maybe the church made it up to make Jesus look like some super-human teacher? Look, even if we say this really did happen…well, there’s even more problems. Why would God do such a thing to…
Read MoreChristianity—The Only True Religion: Really?
Christianity is full of itself and Christians are arrogant because they claim to know everything about God. Really? I mean this is crazy. How can any one group not only claim to know God but also insist that everyone else is wrong. I mean there’s plenty of really good people who are Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus,…
Read MoreGod’s Story Part V: Jesus, the God-Sized Rescuer
So, here we are—he best part of God’s story—get ready to be amazed! Jesus is about much more than rescuing souls so they can go to heaven when they die. He’s about rescuing the whole planet, literally all of creation, ushering in a whole new creation, a new world, a new people. Think of everything…
Read MoreGod’s Story Part IV: The God-Sized Rescue Plan
After the Great Mess-Up, life goes on but it goes on without God at the center of it all. Culture advances but the good is mixed with the bad. And if we’re real, it’s pretty obvious that both history, in general, and our own personal stories reflect this. So, what does God do? Not only…
Read MoreGod’s Story Part III: The Great Mess-Up
All of us, at the gut level, know that things are not what they should be. There’s something not quite right, something seriously broken in our world. How did we get from the amazing Garden to the world we live in? A serious question deserves a serious answer—check it out!
Read MoreGod’s Story Part II: The Garden
God is a person who longs to be in relationship with us. Made in God’s image, given an amazing mission to create culture and everything they need to flourish, humans are invited to live in God’s perfect goodness and peace as his beloved. Check out he beginning of God’s amazing story —God’s awesome intention for…
Read MoreGod’s Story Part I: Intro
God is a person. We can know him. And just like we can learn any person’s story, we can learn his. Not only has he has given us his story, but he’s also invited us to participate in it with him. God’s story has been unfolding since the beginning of time and is still unfolding.…
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