Working for Good In this final installment of “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?” we will turn our attention to God. If you missed the previous posts, go check them out. When we discuss bad things happening and God, it is easy to begin the blame game. We’ve all heard the argument “God doesn’t exist because, if He did, why would He let all these bad things happen?” Let’s get something straight before we go further. God never intended for us to live with bad things h

When The Devil Gets a Bad Rap In this installment of the series Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People, we have to deal with some ugly truth. If you missed the previous parts, you might want to go back and catch up. The devil is bad. That has been thoroughly established. He is the source of all things bad. However, there are many times when he gets a bad rap. WAIT!! Don’t leave yet!! I will explain what I mean by starting with a story. I remember the first time I went

Caught in the Crosshairs Today’s post might seem obvious when you read it here, sitting in your living room, at the coffee shop, or wherever you are, safe, secure and peaceful. But do you remember when things weren’t so peaceful? What about when you found out you were sick and the doctors weren’t sure you would survive? And then there was the time you were late for work and you ran to your car, only to find you had a flat tire. Too often in these times of crisis, we ask Go

There Are No Accidents Did you ever wonder why things seem to go wrong in your life? Sometimes it is easy to become frustrated in your walk with Christ, especially when nothing seems to be going right. In the next few posts, I want to look at why bad things happen to good people, and maybe we can begin to clear up some of the confusion. The first thing that we have to establish before we can clear up anything is this: there are no accidents. What do I mean? Nothing happens

The easiest way to get rid of an evil government system is to become "independent" from it. Our founders understood this and did exactly that! They found the principles in the Word that showed them they were made to be free and subject only to God. If they followed His principles and had self government they could escape tyranny, or man oppression due to the sin nature. Today we pretend to celebrate "Independence Day". I say it is pretend because the people of our nation are