Healing Hereafter

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...

Woo hoo! You've written what could only be a masterpiece in the eyes of the world to solve humanity's problems, either through witty entertainment or well-researched strategy. Just one problem...you're the only one who's read it so far! Now for the first time, you have to let someone else—besides...

Let's face it, God could have stopped creating before he got to humans, or he could have created humans not in his image as he did everything else in our world. So if God saw that everything was good right up until humans came to be (Genesis 1:25), then why did he proceed rather than rest? What is...

And anyone can do it. What you say? Well, you'll have to wait in suspense just a little longer because first I need to tell you about Kim Kaercher. It all connects, don't worry. I met Kim many years ago when she was 15 or so in a youth group I was volunteering with and slowly got to know her over...