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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

C. S. Lewis once said "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Lewis was not unacquainted with suffering in his own life. His book A Grief Observed Lewis pours out his heart after the death of his wife, Joy Gresham. Another man who is acquainted with grief...

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Failure to Render Aid
Failure to Render Aid

In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish...

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Suffering: How can God allow it?
Suffering: How can God allow it?

One of recent history's greatest natural disasters rocked south Asia and the Horn of Africa the day after Christmas, 2004. FoxNews.com reported, "Sunday's massive quake of 9.0 magnitude off the Indonesian island of Sumatra sent 500-mph waves surging across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal in the deadliest known tsunami since the one that devastated...

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Grief and Tragedy
Grief and Tragedy

Disbelief and anger flood our minds and hearts as news of senseless acts of murder settles into our consciousness. We grapple to understand… and there are no answers. A broken mind has taken its own pain and inflicted it on many more. The pain multiplies and we collectively stagger under the weight. In the face of such pain, the living...

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Does God Care?
Does God Care?

We’ve watched our TV screens in horror. The pain and agony of fellow human beings in the midst of disaster goes beyond our comprehension. We grapple with the magnitude of it. Our minds scramble to make sense of it and we simply cannot. Opinions fly from every side. “Its God’s judgment,” some say. Others say, “It’s a sign of the end times.”...

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