Healing Hereafter

About this time of year, I get pretty excited. Up here in the Michigan tundra, it just might snow in October! You see, heralding my arrival into this world was the greatest blizzard this state has ever seen and some of my skin was literally blue when I came out of the womb (I appreciate the...

Most of us know by now that very little of our high school education sticks with us long enough to remember or usefully apply in our adult lives. I can no longer balance a redox reaction or tell you anything at all about Hamlet—besides that probably a lot of people died. But there is one phrase...

IT'S NOT FAIR! The most common category of questions I hear from people regarding what biblically happens to us after we die has to do with God's justice. And quite honestly, most of those questions are very valid and well thought out! When you're dealing with two extremely different destinies...

It's Friday morning four years ago, and I'm walking into work knowing that I have a massive stack of X-rays to interpret just waiting to start my day off in all the wrong ways. My partner had warned me about Fridays at this particular site, claiming I'd have to "gird my loins" and "read a lot...

Hey, I'm just gonna be honest here. I was one of those people who wrote my whole paper in high school or college and only then looked up any sources or quotes to add "credibility" to what I said. Since you can find "authoritative" viewpoints that agree with just about anything you want to say, I...

Last week at some point I told you that Healing Hereafter's chapter on sin and death was the second most important chapter of the book. Although of course I think the rest of the chapters are well-worth reading, Chapter 6 is undoubtedly the most important. Why? Well, I could cop out with...

Suddenly hearing a piece of metal clanking around in your engine? Bad problem. Suddenly hearing your friend recovered so well you have to cancel your evening plans to bring her home from the hospital? Good problem! Today I have a very good problem. In thinking about who I really owe a lot of...

Diamond in the rough. You've written a great first draft, you've had it critiqued by an impartial third party via the developmental edit, and you've recovered from all the criticism enough to reorganize and rewrite. It now has a much stronger structure and is certainly more beautiful for the...

Yes! A chapter about sin and death, pretty much everyone's favorite topics, right? Uuuuuum no, but God's purpose for humans—including YOU—now that is always an interesting discussion. What common thread associated with sin, death, and God's purpose for you could possibly merit inclusion of them...

Ah, Aretha, sing it girl. But not for too long, because this post isn't about you...or even about a girl. It's about a student I've worked with named Adam Driscoll and more than just a little bit of respect. Respect is one of those ideas that means a lot of things to lot of people, from tolerance...