June 1, 2016

Jean-Paul Sartre was no friend of Christianity. He believed that life isn’t a divine creation but a completely meaningless accident. He says, “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”1 Our existence was so unlikely that we shouldn’t even be, yet somehow we are. Think about this […]

Israel spent 40 heartbreaking years wandering in the wilderness. It’s a pretty sad story. After witnessing plagues fall upon Pharaoh, the Red Sea part, and food rain from heaven, the people still questioned, doubted and disbelieved. Even when told to take the land that was theirs, they refused and the Lord condemned them to wander

When Adam sinned he answered the Lord saying, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself” (Gen 3:10). He sinned, heard the Lord coming and hid in fear of what would happen. The Lord gave Adam paradise with one restriction, and he

Augustine of Hippo stands as one of the towering sequoias of Western history. His theology laid a foundation for Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and John Calvin; his philosophy affected Rene Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger. Many of the greatest thinkers in our world have basked to some degree in the broad shadow of Augustine;