
The Problem of Evil, Part 2
In this episode Ron and John sort out what good and evil are. We conclude by examining an episode where Jesus’ disciples demand to know: why did this particular bad thing happen?
In this episode Ron and John sort out what good and evil are. We conclude by examining an episode where Jesus’ disciples demand to know: why did this particular bad thing happen?
Ron and John begin a four-episode series on what is traditionally called “the problem of evil.” In this episode, we lay the groundwork for a conversation that deals with the problem of accounting for evil things that happen in the world around us given what we say we believe about […]
We have examined where hope was fixed in the biblical story and how that informs us as we think about where our hope belongs today. In this final episode of Ultimate Hope Has a Name, Ron and John describe how early Christians focused all the hopes of ancient Israel on […]
We find our best understanding of Christian hope when we look for it in the biblical story itself. In this third episode of our series Ultimate Hope Has a Name, we look at a time in history when hope could have been lost. God’s promises seemed to have no way […]
Our series Ultimate Hope Has a Name continues in this episode that looks into hope’s Old Testament past. Biblical hope focuses on the fulfillment of ancient promises that God made and that gather around a coming Messiah-King. What are those promises, and how does a future Israelite king relate to […]
In this opening episode of our new series Ultimate Hope Has a Name, Ron and John begin to dig into what Christian hope really is. It is far more substantial and powerful than a mere desire for something to happen in the future. We begin a journey here toward a […]