From Let Me Tell You a Story, by Tony Campolo, copyright 2000, page 91 The story is told by M. Scott Peck, the famous psychologist and author, of a woman patient who was suffering from extreme depression. One day, when she was due for an appointment with him, she called on the telephone […]
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When I was in high school I enjoyed reading science fiction. There is one story I read way back then that I still remember, so strong was the image left in my mind. I have forgotten the details, but it was about a scientist who found a way to transfer everything in his
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Painting above: Conscience, by Nicolai Ge, Russian painter (1831-1894) Judas watches as the soldiers lead Jesus away ——————————— (… continued) In the same way, Philip Yancey and the couple that lost their son to cancer, in spite of disappointment and confusion, kept looking to God. And though they were disappointed and heartbroken, sadness
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A friend of mine was telling me about some friends of his. “Years ago they would always go to church,” he said of the friends, “but then their daughter was killed in a car accident, and they have not been back to church since the funeral. They are upset with God for letting
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Above: The Scream (1893), by Edvard Munch (1863-1944); an iconic image of despair and fear by a painter who struggled with mental illness. ******************** By Marvin Olasky, in World magazine, October 18, 2014, page 72. See: http://www.wng.org He’s very smart, my childhood best friend, and very faithful in his atheism. When he was 6
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From a letter by Martin Luther to Doctor Benedict Paul, whose son had lately been killed by a fall from the top of a house. (Paraphrased from The Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlitt, 1857; available at <www.ccel.org> ) Although it is nowhere forbidden in Holy Scripture to mourn and grieve for
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From Job 16:7-17 — Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household. You have shriveled me up… God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me… God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. All
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(continued…) How did the young couple with the child born blind respond to Pastor John’s letter? They quit coming to church. This reaction was not to the letter in particular, but to the God of whom the letter spoke. The father said later that he still believed in God, and believed that God
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I will never forget February 13, 2005, the day our first grandchild was born. Our daughter and son-in-law invited us to the hospital to await the birth of their daughter. It seemed like a long wait, though it was probably no longer than usual. Finally the door we were watching opened and
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