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The Lord’s Prayer: What We Ask and What We Do
Many people think of the “Lord’s Prayer” – the guide to prayer given by Jesus to his disciples (Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 11:2-4) – as something to be recited. In this view, simply saying the words...
A New, Free e-book on Job & the Meaning of Suffering!
The Old Testament book of Job is not only a mysterious and fascinating one, it is also perhaps the most important book in the Bible when it comes to understanding suffering. Why is there suffering...
What Does “Work Out Your Own Salvation” Mean?
“work out your salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12). This short sentence from Paul’s letter to the Philippian church has often been misused by those who have sought to teach that we...
What it Means to Punish in Love
Just as God disciplines his earthly children when he must (“Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline” – Revelation 3:19 and see Hebrews 12:6), so he tells us we must also discipline our children...
The Quest for Immortality
The desire to live – to stay alive – is hardwired into the human brain. Even those who have experienced a lot of suffering and problems in life will still strive to stay alive. The desire to live is...
Love is Not All You Need
“All you need is love, love, love is all you need, love is all you need …” – The Beatles. It may have been a smash hit in its day, but the Beatles’ 1967 song “All you need is love” is not...
Why Do We Doubt Thomas?
“Doubting Thomas.” There is no doubt about it, most Christians regard him as something of a failure. The apostle who said he would not believe in Christ’s resurrection until he had seen him...
The Psalm Behind the Cross
Two of the Gospel writers – Matthew and Mark – record that near his death Jesus called out with what might seem to be a strange statement:And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a...
The Lord’s Supper – Then and Now
Interestingly, the Lord’s Supper was not always kept in the way we may be familiar with today. Nowadays many people celebrate the memorial of the Last Supper and Jesus’ death with small, identical...
Archaeology, King David, and the Lame and the Blind
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking,...
The Three Doors
There is an old folk story that each day as we go into the world we pass through one of three doors. The first door is the dark way, the door of evil intentions, which leads to harm for...
Christian Literature for the Indian Subcontinent
The Indian Subcontinent (which includes the seven nations of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Bangladesh) is home to almost 2 billion people – a full third of the world’s...
