Knowing God

• Getting It "What is your church's view on the Bible?" I posed. "Well," he answered, "I'm a chaplain for the Masons and I think we have a little stronger view of the Bible there than here. However, understanding the Bible is not easy. You have to know Hebrew, Greek and Babylonian to really get it." (Babylonian?)"
  
  
• Preparing for the Funeral "My aged aunt suffered from a series of small strokes impairing her former elephantine memory. We cherish the story of the time she attended the funeral of her uncle William. On the way back the car passed the home of the deceased uncle. Her contemplative voice was heard from the back seat, almost talking to herself. "Hmm," she mused, "I don't remember seeing uncle William there today. Wonder where he was?"
  
  
• The Passion of the Christ: For Whom Did Christ Die? - "Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has piqued our national curiosity. While the lively controversy surrounding it continues unabated, many ask in secret, 'Did Christ die for me?'"
  
  
• Miss Hockingfield's Waterloo - "Why is Christ not beautiful to some people?"
  
  
• The Love of Beauty - "Within me is the longing for beauty, and the repulsion of non-beauty. I am convinced that I have the normal longings of all of us. We are made for beauty."
  
  
• The Most Important Thing - "What if, in your hurry and your worry about so many little things, you actually missed the most important thing?"
  
  
• Dialogue on Christianity - Designed to explain how a person enters into relationship with Christ in nine brief chapters that are page-length or shorter.
  
  
• If God is Good,Why Do So Many Bad Things Happen? - "Here was a man who had innocently gone to work one day, but was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. He was paralyzed from the neck down. What do you say to a man like that?"
  
  
• The Brockton Dialogues
  
  
  • Mother Teresa Leona - "She genuinely wanted to see these pitiable folks at the clinic have adequate medical care. And the more she helped people, the more robustly she spoke up for them. "She's a Mother Teresa," they would say."
    
    
  • The Lofty Grosart - "Helmut was a smart man who missed the entire point of the Scriptures. He knew some facts, but not the truth."
    
    
  • A Fly for Oscar - "Oscar Felton was dying. Everyone knew it. Oscar knew it better than anyone else. He would die and go to hell—that was unquestioned."
    
    
  • The Elderly Mr. Phipp - "When the elderly Mr. Phipp lost his wife, he cried for the first time in seventy-plus years. Emotions were not Phipp's strong suit. He despised them."
    
    
  • The Island of Nis - "Imposition of Christian tradition can only touch the body and not the soul."
    
    
• The Way to God
  
  
  • The Likes of Danni Lites - "Did Danni really live? It depends on your definition. If you mean, did she breathe, have a heartbeat and a brainwave, you would answer "yes." But the real Danni was not known."
    
    
  • October 31st, 1517, Wittenburg, Germany - "Like Martin Luther, you may come by faith alone to Christ alone even now, all these years later. "
    
    
  • Invincible? - "Cut the umbilical cord to temptation. You're not invincible."
    
    
  • The Change of Mind - "If God demands repentance from all people everywhere then you and I are also included."
    
    
  • Destroying the Future - "Explosives that are loaded into life today may be detonated at the most inopportune times."
    
    
  • Knowing You're In - "As a friend of mine said, "Doubts never send anyone to hell, but deception always does."
    
    
  • A Thief in the Night - "We don't know the date or the times when destruction will come—we only know that it is destined to happen, and suddenly.
    
    
  • Trying to Be a Christian - "Trying to be a Christian is an insult to God and is a way of despising what Christ has done on the cross."
    
    
  • Is God Angry? - "Sometimes we think of God as a judge sitting on the bench who passively issues sentences to guilty persons. But is God like this?"
    
    
  • So What's the Problem? - "You may not feel your problem right now. A man may be condemned as guilty and yet not feel guilty, just as a person might have cancer and not feel it or even know it."
    
    
  • You Don't Look So Good - "You're not righteous. Jesus once called some of the most religious people of His day, "white-washed tombs filled with dead men's bones"—not very flattering, but perfectly accurate from the Holy One's perspective."
    
    
  • Sooner Than You Think - "When Dale Earnhart made his last turn around the Daytona 500, did he know what was coming? Will you?"
    
    
  • The Way to God - "There are important facts you must believe about Christ, that is true, but ultimately you must put your faith in the person Himself. He is the way and nobody, including you, will get to the Father but through Him."