I was watching the news one evening last week and a news report came up about the conflict in Syria. It showed deserted war-torn streets where several houses had been reduced to rubble. The news anchor mentioned that several thousand people had been killed and an even greater number had fled their homes because of …
I once heard a preacher say, his troubles increased when he became a Christian. Some may recoil at that because there are people out there who have presented Christianity as a problem-free life. This is neither reality nor biblical. Jesus warned His followers that they will have trouble and suffering [John 16:33] and in the …
Last week, I wrote about God’s love. One of the most used counter-arguments to the existence of a loving God is human pain and suffering. The argument generally goes something like this: “why would a loving God allow suffering?”. This is one of the fundamental questions of human existence because most of us, at one …
