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The suspected killer has been caught. Now he faces the grilling of his life. Across the table from him in the interrogation room is Detective Lenny Briscoe, a veteran cop of the NYPD, and he is not in a good mood. With his voice rising with every syllable he utters, he berates the suspect relentlesslyContinue reading “Who Is God? (Good Cop, Bad Cop, and the Key)”

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites,Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites,seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroyContinue reading “Who Is God? (Different Views)”

Hello everyone from Myrtle Beach! Yes, that’s right – I’m on vacation. But I’m not taking a vacation from writing a blog this week. However, it will be a brief departure from the current series, “Who Is God?” So while I’m not going to write an article that fits in perfectly with the current series,Continue reading “Experiencing God on Vacation”

The sky was turning increasingly dark. Ominous clouds covered everything from horizon to horizon. And then it started – the rain.  It rained and it rained and it rained. It seemed that it would never stop as the fields began to get saturated with endless moisture. No one had seen this amount of water before,Continue reading “Who Is God? (A Vindictive Tyrant?)”

I’m about to make an admission that probably won’t shock anyone. And if I were a betting man, I’d be willing to bet that every parent who reads this article will know exactly where I’m coming from and would make the same admission. Are you ready? Here it is. When my kids were younger, thereContinue reading “Who Is God? (An Abusive Father?) II”

We all probably know stories of people who have experienced abuse, or at the very least have heard them. Perhaps you’ve experienced it yourself. If so, I mean in no way to open up any wounds with what I’m about to write. I also don’t mean to diminish what you or others have experienced. NoContinue reading “Who Is God? (An Abusive Father?) I”

I may be completely off base, but I’m willing to bet that my last two articles have left you with some unanswered questions. Let me take a shot at it. If God wasn’t too impressed with the best law keepers of Jesus’ day (the Pharisees), then why did He give Israel the law in theContinue reading “Who Is God? (A Lawgiving Killjoy?) III”

Last week, we began to address the question of whether God is a lawgiving killjoy who threw a bunch of do’s and don’ts at us to keep us from having a good time.  And as we’re going to do throughout this series about “Who Is God?”, we’re examining the life of Jesus.  As the veryContinue reading “Who Is God? (A Lawgiving Killjoy?) II”

You’re running late for work.  You don’t want to get docked and you don’t want to have to work late to make up the time.  What to do?  You come up with the most natural answer – drive fast!  If the speed limit is 55, why not go 75?  Besides, the speed limit is justContinue reading “Who Is God? (A Lawgiving Killjoy?)”

Of all the images we have in our minds about who God is, one of the most common ones is God as a judge.  It’s like we hold scenes from Law & Order in our heads.  The typical picture looks something like this.  We see a gray-haired, humorless God sitting in his black robes behindContinue reading “Who Is God? (A Condemning Judge?)”