Is Our Pain God’s Problem? - Bart Ehrman & N.T. Wright

Two of HGO’s favorites (for different reasons) discuss via blog posts this important topic on suffering, evil in the world and the Kingdom of God.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/

Here’s a brief summary -

Is our pain God’s problem? If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow so much suffering? These kinds of questions—sometimes called the problem of theodicy—have [...]

17th Annual Theological Conference (Full Recap)

As the conference was in progress, JohnO and I were live-blogging and uploading the audios. However, I thought it would be helpful to have all of the talks in the same place under one post. In addition, I now have many of the actual papers which are useful to follow along with while listening to [...]

Allow Me To Re-Introduce The Christ

Powerful words.  Something to think about

Which Jesus do you follow?  The one of Scripture and history or the one of you’re making and fantasy?

Economic Stimulus Payment & Christ

By John Piper
For a moment, forget the political puzzle of getting money backwhen the country is nine trillion dollars in debt. The more immediate question is: How will you make much of Christ with your “economic stimulus payment”? The president says it will be in the mail in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Clue: Nobody in [...]

The Bridge

Wow….
Can we continue to just sit by and do nothing for our God?  For our Creator?  What is so important that He gets put on the back burner, the bottom of the list?  What are we waiting for?  What else does He have to do?  Stop sitting on the train of apathy - riding no [...]