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If They Can’t Make It, How Can I?
One of our favorite shows in the Brooks household is BBC’s Planet Earth. Each episode is striking as the filmmakers have patiently and painstakingly compiled footage of some of the rarest and hardest...
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Between the Lines: Law, Gospel, and the Doubt of Salvation
This week’s mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses counseling those who doubt their salvation. In this first article, Joshua Waulk discusses how a lack of understanding of the law/gospel...
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Stewarding Our Doubts
Doubt is a normal Christian experience. Those who say they have never had any doubts are possibly lying or simply not being very thoughtful. The Psalms are full of questions that the author asks...
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Does God Love Me? Understanding Doubt When God Seems to Turn Away, Part One
For a child of God to believe that God disapproves of her (or worse, opposes her), is to live in horror and misery. This blog post attempts an inside look at this experience so that you may consider...
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Does God Love Me? How to Help When God Seems To Turn Away, Part Two
This is the second of a two-part article to help a trial-weary believer wrestling with hopelessness due to doubts about God’s love. Please read Part One, describing possible factors to explore, before...
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God Knows Our Doubts
Insecurity in our relationship with God is a fairly common experience. While many of us can be reassured of God’s love fairly easily, for some individuals, anxiety over their salvation can be so...
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Lessons from Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by Makoto...
Where is God when faith fails, missions fall apart, and outcomes are unclear? What possible beauty could be seen in places of (real or symbolic) death? Makoto Fujimura, an internationally renowned...
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Lessons from Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by Makoto...
On the surface, Shusaku Endo’s novel appears to be all about martyrdom, betrayal, and failure. But, as Makoto Fujimura artfully unearths, Silence is more deeply a story of God’s grace. God’s glory is...
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A Conversation with God for the Doubter in All of Us
On a dark night in Jerusalem a couple thousand years ago, a doubter looking for answers made arrangements for a clandestine meeting with Jesus. “It seems like you are from God, but it’s hard to...
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When Goodness Doesn’t Make Sense
If ultimate authority is given to our senses, then doubts about God’s goodness will abound. However, if God’s goodness depends primarily on His own special self-revelation in Scripture, then the here...
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