by Mark Farnham | Jan 19, 2022 | Christian Living, Suffering, Theology
God can seem impersonal and heartless. Who has not begged God for relief, even if no more than for a few drops of water on a parched tongue, only to hear the silence of heaven? Maybe the deists are right. Maybe God wound up the clock of this world and walked away....
by Mark Farnham | Jan 17, 2022 | Cancer, Christian Living, Suffering, Theology, Trinity
You may be thinking, why start a series on knowing God through suffering with the most abstract and difficult doctrine known to Christians? Why not start with something simpler, like mercy or faithfulness? All in due time. I start with the Trinity because who God is...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 13, 2022 | Christian Living, Suffering, Theology
If God has ordained my suffering, what can I do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Well, nothing about my circumstances, but I can do something about my heart. I only have three choices. First, I can cry out to God like the psalmists and cling to what I know to...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer, Christian Living, Suffering, Theology
“So, this is it. This is how I’m going to die,” I thought as I kneeled over the toilet in my underwear, waves of pain slamming my stomach. For the sixth time in two weeks I was experiencing unbearable pain, caused by the lemon-size tumor in my small bowel. What I...
by Mark Farnham | May 4, 2021 | Biblical Studies, Christian Living, Ethics
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” How true. How often does our contentment vanish when we see (what we perceive to be) the superior condition of another person. We lack nothing until that catalog arrives in the mail, and suddenly we are...
