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Category Archives: Hope

How Can We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land?

September 6, 2011

This is the question the Psalmist asks. This is the question for all Christians in our post-Christian world. This is the question I ask myself all the time.

The Problem of Pain and God’s Good Assurance

June 27, 2011

“It is what it is” — I have so often found myself using this phrase. We all use it from time to time. I suppose it is something like saying “roll with the punches,” or perhaps “let the chips fall,” or “stuff happens.”

A Way of Being Human We Never Imagined Before

October 25, 2010

In his latest book titled After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters, the great N.T. Wright says that what the disciples discovered in Jesus was “a way of being human which nobody had ever imagined before. …”

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Suffering, Hope, and Haiti

January 19, 2010

Over the last few days, we have been assaulted with the horrifying images of bodies being dumped into trucks, images of people not only without shelter… Read more»