Alan Smith / October 24, 2012
5 COMMENTS
I grew up in a home where the default answer to my wants and desires was ...
Alan Smith / November 4, 2011
4 COMMENTS
Is life stressing you out? If so, you’re not the only one. Doctors tell us that a significant portion of illness is brought on by stress. I run into people everyday who are ...
Alan Smith / June 7, 2011
4 COMMENTS
Romans 8 is probably my favorite chapter in the Bible. It begins with “no condemnation”, moves on to sonship and inheritance for those led by the Spirit rather than the ...
Alan Smith / June 4, 2011
6 COMMENTS
N.T. “Tom” Wright is one of my favorite authors. This is a great video where he tackles a common conspiracy theory that attempts to undermine the historicity of the gospels. ...
Alan Smith / May 5, 2011
21 COMMENTS
A lot of people wonder why there’s so much pain and suffering in our world. If God is in control (and he is), why doesn’t he prevent more pain? Why has he made a world in ...
/ June 9, 2010
9 COMMENTS
A line is not fully distinct from a point. It is more than a point but still includes all that is a point. A point has neither height nor width. A line has width. A square is not fully ...
/ January 26, 2010
5 COMMENTS
When facing loss and calamity, many take comfort in the thought of God’s sovereignty. “God is in control,” and they find solace in the midst of pain with the thought that God has some ...
/ December 1, 2009
4 COMMENTS
One of the ways in which it is often necessary for us from the West to think differently is in how we think about matter. Since the Enlightenment, western thinking has become more and ...
/ July 27, 2009
3 COMMENTS
“God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen.” That’s the first prayer I remember learning as a small child. It’s short (as prayers before ...
/ June 9, 2009
0 COMMENTS
I want to recommend a book – Flatland by Edwin Abbott. In this book, a two dimensional character (a square) has a dream and in the dream he visits a one dimensional world called ...
/ May 7, 2009
6 COMMENTS
As if the difficulties outlined in my previous post aren’t enough, it gets even more complicated. Messed up theological constructs prop up human brokenness and the two work together to ...
