A student recently asked me what the world would have looked like if Adam and Eve had never sinned. Of course, I have no idea what such a world would have looked like and I confessed as much. Another student then asked why God would make people who would choose to sin to begin with. […]
Several years ago, I received a knock on my office door. One of the young women in our college-age ministry was standing outside with a perplexed look on her face. I invited her in, asking her what was troubling her, noting her obvious frustration. “I think God is calling me, but I have no idea […]
“Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything” (2 Corinthians 2:9). A friend of mine once told me that obedience is God’s love language. Obedience is a hard word to understand because we tend to focus on the what rather than the why. For […]
It was a life-changing event in my childhood. On our way home from a family vacation in Wisconsin, our family was in a serious car accident. A severe skull fracture, vomiting, and hemorrhaging accompanied my Mom’s condition as she fought for her life. It was a big grow-up experience for me as an 8-year-old. Awaiting […]
“Let’s get my son a wife,” said 140-year-old Abraham to Eleazar, his chief servant. God promised Abraham his heirs would be given the land of Canaan (present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel) and Isaac was not yet married. So Eleazar made an oath to return to Abraham’s homeland and seek a wife for Isaac (Genesis […]
