God Heals — Amazing Good News! (Tom Gilson Ministry Newsletter, May 2022)
I have good news. Lots of it. I’ve been holding out on you too long, and I need to pass it along. It’s about bad news getting better — amazingly better. It happened slowly, and gradually, but in retrospect it was an amazing answer to prayer. The Bad News...
My Prayer for My Coming Book
My prayer, freely borrowed from Philip Doddridge, for my coming book "Too Good To Be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality."...
COVID-19 and Life Under ‘House Arrest’: Lessons from Others Who’ve Been There
Millions of us are under house arrest right now for nothing we did wrong. What can we learn from others who’ve been there before? Granted, that’s not exactly the truth. Quarantine isn’t arrest, and neither is self-imposed isolation due to this virus. Every life is unique, every experience...
When God Created Space, Where Did He Put It? (You’ll Be Surprised How Practical That Question Can Be)
Someone called it a nonsense question once. It even looks like a nonsense question, something you’d hear in a sophomore dorm-room discussion. When God created space, where did he put it? The quick answer is that he couldn’t have “put it” anywhere; there wasn’t a “where” to put it until after...
Why 2019 Must Be Your Church’s Year to Wake Up, Get Equipped, and Reach Out
Happy New Year! It could be a great one, if we’ll finally wake up, get equipped, and reach out. That’s why I want to ask you to take thirty minutes to watch at least the first half of this video. Dr. Michael Brown and I were talking on his...
John Loftus’s Bad Reasons for Not Going To Church, and a Few Good Ones For Going
John Loftus, the affable hat-wearing atheist who loves to poke quasi-informed fun at Christians, posted this on Facebook yesterday: Except for extremely rare circumstance I don’t go to church. For one thing, I don’t need to be reminded to be good. For another, I find a deity who commands people...
Legal Rights or Not, There’s Something Wrong When Satanists and Atheists Come to Pray at Governmental Meetings
Yesterday Rachel Alexander, a colleague of mine at The Stream, published an article about Satanists and atheists seeking to pray at governmental meetings: It was a pick-your-poison strategy: Either accept the Satanist prayer or strip regular prayers from the meetings altogether, one of [the Satanists’ spokespersons] explained to The...
Don’t Pray for Patience
There’s a common saying among Christians: “Don’t pray for God to teach you patience–you won’t like what he’ll put you through to learn it!” I don’t think much of that saying. It makes God look like a nasty schoolmaster, for one thing. It’s also the wrong reason. That is,...
Monday Student Question: Why Pray?
Tony asked a while back, why pray? There was more to his question, of course. Here’s the meat of it. He sees and knows all, including what is in our hearts. Given this fact that “you can’t fool God”, I wonder why Christians find it necessary to pray in...
