- Tue, Jun 12, 2007
- Doctrine and Theology, Suffering and Evil
There is a God
“There is a God,” Portland Trailblazer head coach Nate McMillan said when Portland won the NBA draft lottery, giving our city the number one pick. It’s an understatement to say that event dominated news coverage here. Had Philadelphia been vaporized by aliens, it might have made page three.
“There is a God” is a common response to good news these days, so I’m not picking on Coach McMillan. But this expression reflects wrong thinking. The reasoning goes like this: when something happens that we like, it means there is a good God watching over us.
Of course, that ...
I’ve had nearly six weeks now in which I’ve no longer experienced the depression I was battling the prior two months, which 
I’ve received private notes and sympathetic phone calls from people regarding the depression I wrote about on 
This is a picture of Charles Haddon Spurgeon at age 23. Only a year previously, an event happened that brought on a severe depression that he nearly didn’t recover from. 
My friend Doug Nichols, pictured above with his wonderful wife Margaret, is the founder of 
I want to share the following, written by my friend Denny Hartford, the director of a terrific organization I highly recommend, 
Since many have told me how much they appreciated the video with 
I've been thinking of it in context of a big book I'm writing on the problem of evil and suffering. How many times has God had a purpose in events that seemed senseless at the time they happened? How many things that seem pointless now will later be seen to have a divine point? 
In the past year I've gotten to know Jim Harrell, a friend I've exchanged emails with and talked with once on the phone. I interviewed Jim on the subject of suffering for the book I'm currently writing. Jim has read some of my books, including Heaven, and wrote me telling his story. Turns out we have a mutual friend, Chris Mitchell.
See my 
