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I ended my last post on suffering with a comment about “the mysterious will of a personal, powerful, just, and compassionate God.” I can just about hear a critic responding, “Yeah, yeah, yeah! You Christians always take refuge in mystery, but you won’t let us do it.

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My previous post explored human suffering in the light of four non-Christian worldviews. All of them are fundamentally flawed because they are untrue to our deepest intuitions about life. In this post, I turn to the Christian Scriptures.

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Human suffering is very great. Much of it seems senseless. Much of it is so evil that I cannot comprehend it. Vile violence against women and girls, perhaps more than anything else, pierces my heart like a knife. 

 Ukraine – Echoes of 1938

The vote is in.  Ninety-seven percent of voters in Crimea chose to join Russia.  Stalin reportedly once said, “It doesn’t matter who votes.  It matters who counts the ballots.”

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We have a Ukrainian woman, the wife of a former Soviet Air Force officer from the Cold War era, who works for us part-time in Prague.

The most crucial and controversial issue in the evangelical world today is ‘role of women.’  Our secular culture is becoming clearer on this. The Federal Reserve now has a woman chairman, and there is a real possibility of a woman president in two years, not to leave out the German Bundeskanzler.

It’s been over two weeks and no one is talking about anything else.  What happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370 with its sacred cargo of 239 souls?  The world wonders and searches.

On February 3 Temple University in Philadelphia announced its new “Fly in 4” program.   Essentially, Temple will give 500 lower income students, or seven percent of the incoming class, a grant of $4000 if they promise not to work more than ten hours a week.

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I wonder if there is something that is missing in your life as a believer in Christ? As a minister of His Gospel? I wonder if that one missing thing might be the anointing of God?

Does the way you see the biblical ‘role of women’ show you where you belong in a denomination?  For me, the function of a denomination has been especially hard to understand

I recently came across a legal alert from a Christian organization that directs pastors who learn of suspected child abuse to first conduct their own internal investigation “to decide whether the situation requires reporting to the authorities.”  Yikes!

What is our Christian take on marriage?  Right now we say a lot about hetero and homo, important though that is, but we’re pitifully slow at getting to the heart of what God tells us about marriage. This is it: believers in Jesus Christ should marry believers, and lean together on Jesus to do it right.