When you are sick, you understand how important being healthy really is. This year, we’ve thought a lot about sickness, suffering and physical healing, because, Marda had cancer…

You are going to get sick.And, maybe even really sick.How does God want you to think about that?People will tell you lots of different things you should think, but how does God want you to think about sickness and healing…

Is God able to heal me? We have been asking some questions about what the Bible teaches regarding sickness and healing. And, I realize these questions aren’t too difficult yet, but they are building on each other, so hang with me…

If I can be sad about being sick and I can even want to be healed and I know God is able to heal, should I expect that God will always heal me? In our previous post, we have seen, the short answer is no…

God can heal.But he doesn't always heal.Why?We are asking some questions about what the Bible teaches about sickness and healing. And, we've come to question number five…

If the Bible doesn't tell us that it's always God's will to heal us right now, what hope does it give me? That’s question number 6.And to understand, the answer to that question, you are going to have to understand there is a bigger problem in this universe than even, physical suffering…

I sometimes just can't imagine it. I think I know the danger of false teaching here in Africa and I think I can see how far some of these false teachers have strayed from Scripture, but I am still sometimes surprised by the absolutely crazy…

What do you set your mind on? I will tell you one reason that is an important question. In Philippians 3:19 Paul describes those who walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. “Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with their mind set on earthly things.”

We assume if there is a God that He is going to speak. But He didn't have to. If we are going to know Him however, we need Him to…

I’ve been reading books on spirituality, recently. I think it’s a little bit of a funny word. It’s not a word the Bible uses a lot. But I get what people mean, I think. What does it look like to have a good everyday relationship with God?…

I wonder if there are promises in the Bible you have a hard time believing. I think for me some of the promises in the Bible I have the hardest time believing are the promises God makes about prayer…

One of the reasons unanswered prayer is a problem is because of all we have in the Bible that leads us to think God will answer our prayers. In the Bible God makes some really big and awesome promises regarding what happens when a Christian…

We're talking about the problem of unanswered prayer: If God is in control and God really listens to our prayers and if God loves me, why doesn't He answer my prayers the way I want…

Exodus chapter 2: Setting: Israel...in Egypt. Problem: God's people...slaves, being treated cruelly. Response: They begin to pray…

To understand why God doesn't always answer our prayers, we have to start by understanding that to understand why God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we want we have understand we are not always going to fully understand why God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we want…

It is very easy to get discouraged about prayer. You know how it goes. You hear a message about the power of prayer. You go home and you start to pray, and nothing seems to happen…

We have been talking about the power of prayer at church. And it is not unusual for people to hear sermons about the power of prayer and to get excited and to go home and to start to pray and then to come crashing down a…

We are thinking about the problem of unanswered prayer. But before we even attempt to understand a good solution to this problem, we are identifying some clearly wrong answers we are tempted to believe…

You will never get the right answer when you are asking the wrong questions. This means if you are struggling to understand why God is not answering your prayers the way you would like, and you are asking, is it because God does not know what is going on…

I was recently asked to talk about how to talk about sexual purity with your children. I suppose because I have nine children myself, this is an important subject for me to think about…