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#WCSK Episode 0.4b: How to deal with suffering
Picking up from last week… How to deal with suffering The Biblical model never asks Christians to deny, dismiss, or minimize suffering. In fact, there is an entire book of the Bible (Lamentations) devoted to the expression of grief. As we discuss later, Job had his outpouring of grief and emotion memorialized for all time in…
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#WCSK Episode 0.4a: Why Suffering?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And…
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#WCSK Episode 0.3: What if I am not certain?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. Introduction The central point that I am going to explain in this lesson is that—as I have written many times before—the Christian…
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#WCSK Episode 0.2: Can I have faith and still have doubts?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. Introduction Let’s start by taking a look at what the Bible says about trusting in God and having doubts. (All verses below…
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#WCSK Episode 2.10b: The Sabbath
Picking up from last week… Sabbath as Resistance The Sabbath was instituted as a formal national command to Israel after God freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. While the Jews were in Egypt, they lived amidst a culture that was oppressive, had no regard for life, and was not concerned with communal wellbeing. The Egyptian…