When You’re Suffering, Why Does God Feel Absent?

My daughter asked me a big question the other day. “Dad, why did God make bees and mosquitoes?” I could see her 5-year-old theological wheels turning as she pondered the mystery of why a God who cares for her and who is powerful enough to make whatever he...

5 Commitments for a Mutually Submissive Marriage

There’s a bumper sticker that says, “Marriage is finding that one special someone you can annoy for the rest of your life.” That’s funny, in a too-close-to-home kind of way, but it falls a little short of the picture of marriage that we see in...