People have many reasons for why they doubt God exists, here are five that I think are silly:
1. Christians are hypocrites—Christians say one thing and do another. Although this is absolutely true...
Everyone says they want the Sunday church experience to be joyful, and a meaningful part of their life. No one wants church to be boring, awkward, or devoid of practical relevance. People have lots of opinions about how to make this happen—about everything from the music, the seating, the length of the sermon and whether or not the Bible is read from the king's English.
All of those things probably matter to some degree or other but I'm gonna propose something that I think is far more important to the life of the church than any of those things...
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Staring at the brightly wrapped gifts under the plastic tree, "which one of these boxes could be the Johnny West Covered Wagon I circled in the JC Penny Toy Catalogue?" Standing in our Christmas socks wondering what could be hidden in all these paper mysteries. "It's still three days until Christmas—it feels like...
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Thanksgiving. A day we set aside to be thankful, a day filled with the hopeful expectations of good times and great food. Sometimes we have really high expectations—that we put on ourselves and on others—and if those expectations aren't met...
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We want the world to make sense. If God allows a lunatic to walk into a church and murder people while they are worshiping Him—how can we continue to believe He is listening to our prayers, or that He exists at all? It shakes us to our core—we are horrified, saddened, and infuriated. We feel in the deepest ways possible how wrong this is.
We look around the crime scene and we wonder,
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Demons, Ghosts, Vampires, and monsters of every kind will be walking in small packs around our neighborhoods on Halloween night. How are we as Christians supposed to feel about this? If we think it's "just good fun" are we being unfaithful? Would it be better to forbid our children from ...
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In January 2015, eight separate people approached me about starting a new church. We prayed about it and in February we starting meeting on Saturday nights at the The Lab. There were about 25 of us, we sat in lawn chairs, I led the music by myself with an acoustic guitar and gave the first message. It was from Matthew 14 about Jesus walking on water—taking a leap of faith...
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