Healing Hereafter

So yesterday I found myself totally lost in convoluted hallways, marveling at how tall the lockers were, and my older sister was there with me in the same building. The last time that all happened, I was a 14 year-old freshman, so I was having some major dejavu! However, this time around, neither...

I love me some Emperor's New Groove! So in this scene we've got Pacha—suffering from a poverty of experience and resources—and we have Kuzco—suffering from a poverty of humility and compassion. For both intentional and unintentional reasons, they find themselves about to fall into an alligator...

I adamantly maintain that there are two transitions in life that teach you more than any others. The first is having a second child. The second is well, I won't say, because everyone has at least one uniquely educational transition that I don't know about! But back to the first one: the second...

There's a dude on the street corner wearing a big sign with flames on it telling you in a rather angry voice that you're going to Hell. Or maybe you're more familiar with the church folks who say all the right Christian things but exhibit lives that are less Christian than most of the...

This is probably the most difficult question I have come across studying the Bible, out of the hundreds I've written on. What I find interesting is how many folks seem to offer a very quick and definitive answer, except that half of them say yes and the other half say no! I am guilty of this...

Yep, there I am...well, my toes anyway. And yep, there's T-rex chomping at my poor digits with all the ferocity and determination of a 4-year-old. I'm not gonna lie, rubber T-rex bites can still be painful, but much less so when you're ready for them. But that's nothing compared to when my son...

For some, there's nothing more terrifying than the phrase "free will versus predestination." See, I already lost some of you. Whether it brings folks back to a sharp disagreement, to a religion course that significantly lowered their GPA, or to the point when their beliefs started becoming a lot...

Chances are you've heard them, or maybe you've even asked them. The sometimes silly and sometimes serious questions about God like, "Can he make a burrito so hot he can't eat it?" or "If he can do everything, how come he can't sin?" Often these inquiries concern the sovereignty of God and how...

This question is a BIG DEAL. Why? Well, at least hundreds of millions of people died before Jesus had even provided the Christian means to salvation. Billions of people have died since then with no meaningful way to access or understand Jesus' solution even when it had been accomplished. And...

It's astonishing how prevalent the belief is that we live, die, and then go to heaven or hell, because it really has little to no support from the Bible. And yet I believed this for many years myself! Perhaps it's simple, and that's why it's common, or perhaps some understandably look forward so...