What Kind of God?

I am always interested in what kind of God people believe in, for many of the views we have of God are ill-founded and just plain wrong. People have misconceptions about God’s nature and sometimes reject God only to find out that Christians reject that...

Prefixes and Suffixes

A prefix is a word or letters placed before another word (e.g. recreate, unacceptable, disinterested), usually changing the meaning of the original word. I find it interesting that so many of the things God wants to do in our lives involve the prefix re (meaning...

The Father of Faith

Abraham is the key example to us in the Old Testament of someone who didn’t have all the answers but who still trusted God. God had promised Abraham He would give him a son in his old age. Abraham and Sarah were old and had been married a long time and it didn’t look...

Believing When Bewildered (2)

Often, when we are confused and bewildered and don’t seem to have any answers to big questions (‘if God is so loving and powerful, why has this happened?’), the temptation is to give up. We conclude that God must either be not so loving or not so...