Category Archives: Suffering

Acts of God — Not! #11:
When Disaster Strikes

By | 8 Jul 2013

On June 30 of this year, 19 firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite wilderness firefighting team fielded by the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department, died while fighting a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona. They were caught out in the open when a sudden wind-shear reversed the course of the fire back towards them, overwhelming the team long before… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #10:
Temptations, Trials & Tribulations

By | 21 Feb 2011

Over the last 9 posts, I’ve been making the case that God doesn’t go around killing Christ-followers, inflicting sickness and disease on them, and causing disasters. I hope to make this the final post in this series and to move on to other topics as the Lord leads. In this article, I want to address the issue of… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #8:
Jesus as God-in-Sandals

By | 24 Jan 2011

Over the last 7 posts, I’ve been making the case that God doesn’t go around killing Christ-followers, inflicting them with diseases, stealing their jobs or homes, etc., etc. In these we’ve covered several aspects of this issue, such as our covenant with God, the believer’s authority on this earth, the promises of God, and the role of Satan… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #6:
The Promises of God

By | 16 Dec 2010

In the last 5 posts, I’ve been making the case the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters nowadays. This post, we’ll continue exploring the promises of God. In my last post, we discussed how God has sovereignly limited His own sovereignty by telling us in His… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #5:
The Sovereignty of God’s Word

By | 3 Dec 2010

In the last 4 posts, I’ve been making the case that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters. In the second article of this series, I listed 4 factors not generally understood about the Bible which causes many to misunderstand the issue. This post we’ll tackle… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #4:
Spiritual Authority

By | 3 Nov 2010

Lately I’ve been talking about how God doesn’t kill or visit sickness and disasters upon His children. We’ve discussed blood covenants in the last 2 posts. Now let’s move on to the subject of spiritual authority. The first aspect we’ll address is the sovereignty of God. Towards the end of my last article, I mentioned Calvinism. One of… Read More »