2018-09-050Comments

Hope in Lamenting: When Life Has No Easy Answers

Sometimes, there’s no easy answer—or an answer at all!—for life’s hardest questions, especially for a Christian. I doubt no one really wants to know the reason...

by Lydia Harris

Apologetics

Islam

2015-07-245Comments

The Sword or the Cross? How Islam and Christianity Grow

Doctrine drives all religions, theistic and non-theistic. God makes for a more compelling religion. Following God’s will, sacrificing for God, hoping in God compels believers...

by Doug Groothuis

Suffering and Pain

2014-08-077Comments

Making Sense of All Suffering – What is the Telos of Pain?

What’s the point of all the suffering Christians go through? What is God trying to accomplish? What’s the goal? The Bible talks a lot about this using the Greek word “telos”....

by C Michael Patton

Mike Licona

Suffering and Pain

2012-05-129Comments

Musings: A Response to Suffering

In this 3-minute video, I provide a few thoughts for Christians facing suffering:

by Mike Licona

Apologetics

Current Issues in Theology

Suffering and Pain

Theology Unplugged

2008-08-1811Comments

The Problem of Evil, Suffering, and Pain

Here is an mp3 of the sermon I preached this Sunday at Crossroads Grace Community Church (what a great church!). I will follow up with the lesson that I taught during the...

by C Michael Patton