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Reasons, Part II: Is There a Reason Behind Disease and Death?

by mr maple continued from Is There a Reason Behind Everything Bad That Happens? Madness and chaos. That was what disease seemed to me, a medical student struggling for the first time with life and death in the h…
Michael Jackson Is Dead!

Four people just called to share this news with me, my sister, two best friends, and my father. According to the Associated Press he died of cardiac arrest. I'm sure someone else will blog about who he was and what he…
Raptures Happen Every Day

Imagine you are just walking down the street, minding your own business, when all of a sudden a pea-sized meteorite traveling 30,000 miles an hour penetrates your skull and kills you. Have you ever left your home think…
Advice: I'm Dying Inside - How Do You Keep the Faith?

I get it – you're supposed to put your entire faith and trust into the Lord. He will take care of everything. After all, isn't He the maker and the creator? He's alpha, omega, the beginning and the end. Yet, as I see m…
A Mop and Broom: Learning About Love After My Little Brother Died

Student of a prestigious boarding school, soccer goalie, math, girls, spats with mom about cleaning and clothes, Sunday afternoons with siblings, homework, drag racing with dad, love letter writing with big sis, beatin…
How Do You Live in the Shadow of Death?

Yesterday, I held my neighbor, shaking and sobbing, two hours after her beloved Tom breathed his last breath. His story is too familiar: cancer, treatment, remission, cancer return, gone. They were prepared for him…
Even With Good Intentions, Killing Can Never Be Justified

The number one argument I hear against nonviolence for the Christian is “for defense.” Many claim that it is not only fair, but right, and even biblical to kill others in the defense of ones self or others (usually lov…
Everything Must Die to Rise Again

Everything must die to rise again. I think that's such an awesome line. Especially if you're a Christian in this time of Lent, nothing could be more true. It doesn't take a genius to know this applies to us all. It doe…
The Inevitability of Taxes, Pain, and Death

As the saying goes, there are a couple of things you can’t avoid in this world, death and taxes, yesterday I faced both. My taxes were actually completed last week. All I was supposed to do was show up at my accountant…
I Guess We're Not Supposed to Fear God

by Brant Hansen of Letters From Kamp Krusty Somebody asked me to do this "devotional" thot-thing for some mainstream, well-educated, evangelical, Bible-quoting adults. I correctly guessed it was to be about God, Jesu…