Posts with the tag “john-8”

One of the things I dislike most about my role as youth pastor is trying to discern if someone is lying to me. Working with teens, and truthfully a lot of adults are not much better, it is tough sometimes to discern who is lying and who is telling the truth. I’ll be honest, a lot of times I weigh the cost of even trying to find out! I feel like sometimes I could be a full-time investigator, which ...  Read More

How can a good God allow evil and sin to exist in the world? How can a good God allow suffering and pain? Why would God make so many people die in the Bible? Why doesn’t God show himself to us? How can a loving God send people to Hell? How can the Bible be true? How does the earth appear to be old, but the Bible makes it seem young? If Christianity is true, why are there so many “Christians” whose...  Read More

One time I was driving home from my outreach night as a youth pastor at my previous church, when I realized that my car lights were beginning to run dim. What I would realize later is that my car alternator was dying. As my lights were dimming, I was racing home faster than I usually would drive (no, seriously   Read More