Did God Create Evil?
Google that question and you’ll get over 1.6 million responses. Even if you could read them all, I’m not sure you’d get the correct answer. Why do people ask? Perhaps they think it’s a chance to make God like us, devious and manipulative, self-serving. To support that concept, we read that we were made for […]
A Choice to Give
When you get to Heaven, what biblical character other than Jesus would you like to meet first? Whenever I ask that question, the answer is usually Peter, Paul, or Abraham—David or Moses less frequently. I nod, agreeing with their preference, and wait for them to ask what my choice would be. They always want to […]
Fake It Until You Make It
My science teacher in high school was known for his absent-mindedness. He lived only a few blocks from school, so he often walked home. One morning he went to his driveway and thought his car had been stolen until he realized he had driven the car to school the day before. One day, he was […]
Being Early Made Me Late
I’m not sure why some people are habitually late. Maybe they enjoy being the center of attention when they walk through the door and everybody else is there. Whatever the excuse, they will say, “Better late than never.” Since I don’t care to be the center of attention and I don’t like people having to […]
Rejection
My ninth-grade English teacher told my class to write a one-page story, so I wrote a science fiction story about a man who was marooned on the moon. In the first-person perspective, the main character was the one telling the story. To be unusually creative, at the end of my story, I wrote: I died. […]