Why does a good God allow suffering and evil? The problem of evil and suffering - Rev Canon Charles Royden Sermon in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing This has been a bad week for Manchester, a bad week for our country. The targeting of children by an indiscriminate suicide bomber, ...
I had this epiphany, really, for me, that it wasn’t about practicing the presence of God. I need to practice the presence of being attentive because the presence of God is everywhere, and I don’t want to waste suffering by wasting my attention. So how can I be attentive to the pre...
If God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good why is there suffering and evil? 1. There is no God – Atheism 2. God is not all powerful – Finite Godism 3. God is not all knowing – Evolutionary Godism, Open Theism 4. God is not all good – Pantheism, Panentheism ...
When My suffering children appealed to you or help, you had no mercy. I only asked for so much, or so much; but you did not give it to Me, and now I will take it all." God asks of us one-seventh of our time in the way of Sabbath. Do you suppose we can get an hour of ...
First, it does not matter if people misunderstand you or accuse you unjustly. What matters is standing right before God. Second, even though the decision to forgive must always come from within, it is never a matter of willpower alone. The most powerful source of strength is always your ...
A good sermon should be like a woman’s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.Ronald Knox. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen. PCC(E): The next one is the most relevant to what I wrote: ...
But to return: the Church does not accept the idea that the Mother of God was born with the (inherited) guilt of Adam; no one is. She did, however, inherit the mortality which comes to all on account of Adam’s Fall. Therefore, there is no need to do what Latin theologians have...
He will have sufficient energy to serve those around him and alleviate the suffering of others who may not have been as prepared. He can administer to the emotional and spiritual needs of his loved ones and others within his sphere of influence. In short, he can build the kingdom of God...
9:14-24 Whatever God does, must be just. Wherein the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this preventing, effectual, distinguishing grace, he acts as a benefactor, whose grace is his own. None have deserved it; so that those who are...
In his book,The Saints' Treasury, Jeremiah Burroughs has a sermon on the Colossians verse. Burroughs makes a statement like this,"Surely Christ is an object sufficient for the satisfaction of the Father."None of us would argue with that, would we? Isaiah tells us that God will see the re...