I’ve forgotten the actual date, but I think it was Good Friday,1993, when we had a pageant that included a crucifixion. Our worship area at that time was rather patched together and we did [...]

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,     "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,         and I will [...]

My friend Martha and I have a lot in common — we’re both believers,  we both have an adventurous streak, and we share a truly terrible sense of direction. We swap stories of amazing [...]

One of the oldest arguments against the existence of a good God is the philosophical conundrum, the problem of evil. It goes like this: If God is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful, how can evil [...]

by Kathleen Petersen Earlier this week you received words from some of my fellow Devotional Team members about the shade cast on Jesus’ reputation by dishonorable conduct of self-identified Christians. Such examples prompt doubt [...]

by Sherry Sommer Throughout decades of being a Christian, I’ve grown in some churches and have gotten frustrated and cynical in others. Just because well meaning people meet in a “Church” building that doesn’t [...]

by Jeanne Melberg “With all sorts of doubts I am familiar, and the result of them is, has been, and will be, a widening of my heart and soul and mind to greater glories of [...]

by Aaron Bjorklund One of the saddest realities is the fact that it is so easy to make a case against Christianity based on how Christians behave. There are far too many examples of Christians [...]

by Bruce Hanson   Fifty years ago I read a book by William Schnell titled Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave, the story of a man who had spent his life in the Jehovah’s Witnesses before [...]