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Who would you meet?
The brilliant professor of philosophy at London University, C.E.M. Joad, was not a Christian. He was asked on a radio programme, ‘If you could meet any person from the past and ask them just one question, whom would you meet and what question would you ask?’ Professor Joad answered without hesitation: ‘I would meet Jesus…
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Curtain torn in two
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Saving others
On 13 January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 taking off from Washington, DC, crashed into the Potomac River. It was winter and the river was full of ice. The crash happened near a bridge going over the river. The TV cameras could see everything. Millions of viewers, sitting in their living rooms, watched as a…
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Salvation equals freedom
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Creation and dna
Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, led a team of over 2,000 scientists who collaborated to determine the three billion letters in the human genome – our own DNA instruction book. He said, ‘I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time…
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Be kind
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Job
The book of Job is not so much about why God allows suffering as it is about how we should respond to suffering. To use the technical, theological terms, it is more theophany (appearance of God in the midst of suffering) than theodicy (theological explanation of suffering). Nicky Gumbel – UK Vicar, Alpha Course (1955-…
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Wisdom
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Job
The book of Job demonstrates once and for all that sin and suffering are not necessarily directly connected to an individual’s sin or lack of sin. The whole point of the book of Job is that, although Job is not perfect (13:26; 14:17), it was not Job’s sin that caused his suffering. Job was ‘blameless…
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