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“Would it be worth another’s suffering for you to know God?” This question unsettled me during one of my 2:00 a.m. can’t sleep, praying times. The next morning I saw lots of tweets like this: Though some of the facts about exactly where and when this atrocity took place are…

Devotional by Pamela EasonPainting, “The Prayer,” by Adolphe Bouguereau Great-grandmother Fannie Lee, on my dad’s side, died in 1968. I was nine. She died long before positive thinking became popular in the late 1990’s and five years after Joel Osteen was born. She was “laid out for viewing” in someone’s…

Unrelenting wild beasts that take your soul; Leviathan, the great impenetrable and unhookable, multiple-headed sea monster that generates world-wide havoc; poisonous arrows that sink into your skin; the mighty, muscular, illusive, Behemoth who eats and eats everything in sight and fears nothing; the roar of tsunami waves washing over your…

There is a suffering that is sometimes thrust upon the blameless, and we seem to be at a loss for reasons to explain it.

“For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’ But you were unwilling” (Isaiah 30:15, ESV). Our Belief and God’s Glory: Christians are called believers. We must believe to be saved….

In his December 16, 1860 sermon, A Blow at Self-Righteousness, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” noted that, Tens of thousands of sermons have been preached against self-righteousness, and yet it is as necessary to turn the great guns of the law against its walls to-day as ever it was. So…

Long, long ago on some far gone day, God spoke to his people in a mysterious way. Secular Groups for People Who Hear Voices There are groups, I learned from a Ted Talk, whose mission is to help people who hear voices. Intervoice and The Hearing Voices Network are two such secular…

In Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel is the recipient of both her father’s favor and wrath. In chapter 29 of Isaiah’s prophetic oracles, “Ariel,” the city who experiences both God’s wrath and favor, is a pseudonym for Jerusalem or Zion. In his commentary, The Prophecy of Isaiah, J….

The Monotony of Destruction Year after year, year after year, preach after preach, preach after preach, word after word, word after word, a little sight, a little light,   Year after year, year after year, beer after beer, beer after beer, sip after sip, sip after sip, a little haze,…

Below is my first completed short story ever – 1978 words if you want to know how short. I share this story for three reasons. Personal Challenge First of all, I share it because I want to take my own challenge in the Creating Art from Theology: Artist’s Guide to “produce art…