God and Reason
| Resolved series | Where Did the Universe Come From? Our culture often suggests that it’s foolish to believe in God. I want to explore that and resolve this question for us. Specifically, my goal is to demonstrate that belief in God is quite reasonable. By reasonable, I mean that belief in God, a creator …
Resolutions That Matter
| Resolved series | The New Year brings an opportunity for a fresh start from this past year. In this video we are discussing how Joseph and I have previously taken on resolutions. Let’s define what resolutions are How they can be helpful What resolutions are really worth our time. How can we finally be …
Jesus Birth and Life (A Christmas Story)
As I prepared to talk about Christmas this year I came across something so significant. I found a parallel between Jesus’ birth and the way He lived his life that I had never heard someone talk about. The way He came into the world and where so perfectly symbolized the way He would live His …
How to Overcome Adversity
| More Than Conquerors series | We can either overcome adversity or allow it to define us. Hardship can either produce good for us or harm. What can we do to enable good to come out of adversity? How do we overcome adversity? Can we really come out on the other side better as a …
What Keeps Us from Overcoming Adversity
| More Than Conquerors series | Last time we saw How God Works All Things for Good. However, we saw that we also have a part to play, that our response to suffering enables us to receive the good that God wants to produce for us in it. This also means that adversity can either …
How God Works All Things for Good
| More Than Conquerors series | Hardship Can Produce Harm In Why We Suffer, we talked a lot about the good that hardship can produce in us. Indeed, this truth was evident in each of the stories we looked at in that series. However, when we look around us, the stories we hear don’t always …
Rejoice in Suffering
| His Love in Suffering series | This is the last in our series on God’s love in our suffering. This week, I’d like to consider a character from the New Testament to talk about his unusual perspective on suffering. Paul wrote quite a bit on the topic of suffering, and I can understand why given …
Why We Suffer
| His Love in Suffering series | We are in a series on God’s love in our suffering. Seeing the suffering in this world and experiencing suffering in our own life may make it seem that God doesn’t love us. However, there is one character in the Bible whose story powerfully refutes this. If God …
His Plan for Our Pain
| His Love in Suffering series | In the last post, we explored how God does not always display His love by preventing suffering in our lives. Rather, He shows His love to us by comforting us through our sufferings. In that post, I mentioned that I would like to bring this idea to life …
His Companionship in Our Distress
| His Love in Suffering series | “When I set aside what I wish He would do for me with His power, I begin to see how much He does for me with His presence.” I wanted to talk about God’s love for us. As I think about His love, my thoughts are often drawn …
Overcoming Loneliness
| Talking with God series | Friendship with God Have you ever felt alone? The fear of being alone certainly ranks among our deepest and most meaningful. But the word “alone” doesn’t fully describe it; after all, we can be surrounded by people, even friends and family, and still feel alone. I long to feel …
Learning God’s Voice
| Talking with God series | Knowing Him and Recognizing His Voice “Is that You God?” Have you ever had a thought while you’re praying and wondered whether it was His voice or just your own? How do we discern if He’s talking to us? In John 10, Jesus explains our relationship with Him as …