He Split the Sea for Them. Why Not for Me?
An honest look at the distance between the exodus and the ordinary unanswered prayer.
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An honest look at the distance between the exodus and the ordinary unanswered prayer.
Proverbs says the righteous prosper and children trained rightly stay the course, and many faithful people have seen the opposite; what then is the book claiming?
An honest look at Romans 8:28 from the side of the person for whom things have not worked out.
The prayer of John 17 seems to have gone unanswered for two thousand years, and honest believers should ask why.
An honest look at the silence many believers experience, and at what the Bible actually says about hearing God.
Paul says we are justified by faith apart from works, and James says a person is justified by works and not by faith alone, and both claim Abraham as proof.
A father in Mark 9 said yes, and Jesus healed his son anyway
Paul promises that God will meet all your needs, and many believers have starved; the tension deserves an honest answer rather than a quick one.
Delay is one of the most common reasons believers begin to doubt, and Abraham's story faces it head-on without pretending the waiting was easy.
A slow answer to the objection that the healings and feedings in Mark belong to a pre-scientific world.
The disciples' question in the storm is one many believers have asked, and it deserves a slow, honest answer.
Psalm 23 raises the hardest question in the Christian life and answers it more honestly than we sometimes do