Soul Sister Time

            Why do people give up on God?  There are a variety of reasons.  He is real.  He is present.  He is good, but it is hard for us to see His goodness when we are faced with the evil that is in the world.  The evidence of evil shrieks from news on television or and from the microcosm of people we know.  Most of us use our own lives to determine if God is, whether he is good or that He cares.  We miss the fact that God is so real, generous and full of affection that He is in the midst of our fallen, broken world and reaches out with hope. His goodness is impossible to drive out of our world, and especially by our doubt of Him.             Still the majority of people find His goodness hard to see, or they have simply stopped looking, believing His goodness or His existence to be irrelevant to their own.  Souls in doubt are sou...

Why isn't it easy to believe in Jesus Christ? If it were easy, there would be more people who believe. For those of us who believe, it is hard to comprehend why others don't believe. Believers believe they are absolutely hopeless without Jesus. Perhaps that’s the catch. Our human nature will do anything to believe that it is up to us. John Ascroft's infamous quote, Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you . Does make you wonder why someone would reject Christianity. It’s easy to believe in yourself and your own abilities; it is much more difficult to believe that the God of the universe has done it all for you. If you truly believe that, you will believe radically different things about the world. Church attendance does not make you a believer. Joyce Meyer loves to say: I can sit in the gara...