If God is So Powerful and So Good, Why Do Bad Things Happen?

Dr. Voddie Baucham (Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia) preached this powerful word that goes along with some sermons I have preached lately, though Dr. Baucham drives home the point much better than I! This is from the 2006 Desiring God National Conference titled “The Supremacy of Christ and Truth in a Post-Modern…

Affected by God’s Word

In today’s Bible reading* we see that God’s people were affected by God’s Word. When the book of Moses is read, the people learn that the Ammonites and Moabites were prohibited from entering the assembly of God (Deuteronomy 23:3) because of how they treated God’s people as they migrated into the Promised Land from Egypt….

“God’s Not Fair!”

In today’s Bible reading* God’s people are complaining that He’s not fair. But God counters that it’s not Him who’s not fair; it’s His people. But the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ Is it my ways that are unfair, house of Israel? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair? “Therefore,…