When Famine Comes

Bible, Ephesians, Genesis, God, obedience, trials

This semester I am teaching something called Chronological Bible Discipleship.  As you might infer, we’re going through the Bible chronologically in order to better understand the Bible as ONE story, not 66 independent books. All that to say, we spent some time...

Why Everybody Isn’t Going to Heaven

believe, Bible, evangelism, faith, God, Heaven, Jesus, John, sin, truth

Christianity is often distinguished from all other religions because it is the only religion (except maybe universalism, which says everyone goes to Heaven no matter what) that is not works-based. While the other world religions require men to be good – to do...

A Little Change of Perspective Goes a Long Way

1 John, discipline, God, idols, John, Kurt Cobain, love, obedience, sin

Hi, my name is Kelly, and I am a rebel. I’m sure this is true of all people to some degree or another, but I feel particularly prone to resist authority. I blame my older brother.  He modeled rebellion well for me, for which he spent the better part of the...

We Can Learn From Blockheads

God, Job, truth

(Apparently, I’ve been watching too many Charlie Brown holiday specials because “blockhead” is my new favorite insult). (Is it bad to start a blog post with a digression?  No?  How about two digressions?) In my last post I quoted one of Job’s...

Cheap Hope

believe, Bible, God, hope, Job, Romans

I marvel at people who don’t have any religious beliefs.  Depending on the website, between 2% and 11% of the world’s population are atheists, agnostics, or have no religious beliefs.  Assuming a world population of 7 billion, that translates to between...