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Indifferent? Where is God When I Suffer?

21 May 2013

How can we trust in a loving God when we see so much suffering in the world around us or if we experience it ourselves? At OICCU’s main event in 2013 Vince Vitale tackles this very topic, as part of their ‘Born Loved’ week. The audio includes a one-minute introduction to Vince Vitale and the [...]

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Apologetics talks At Bath University

6 December 2012

RZIM recently led a mission at Bath University, which involved talks from Michael Ramsden and Tanya Walker. Students from RZIM’s Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, including former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, Stephen Lam, and OCCA alumni Mark Davies, a former SAS soldier, also took part in the mission. Talk titles included ‘Can we be [...]

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Wounded Lessons

3 September 2012

When we come to Christ asking for help, we are offered a person, not a list that adds insult to injury. To the wounded, he simply offers his own wounds. For a moment I was completely confused. Wincing, I bent down to remove what I thought was a thorn between my toes when a bee [...]

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The Hunger of the Spirit And the Ties that Bind

29 August 2012

Why do people turn to God? Is it because of pain? Is it from being weary of pleasure? The reality is that both leave haunting questions. As Ravi Zacharias observes, the struggle between pain and pleasure gives spirituality a more defined goal, and only God alone knows how we will respond. I have pondered long [...]

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Crux of the Story

22 August 2012

There is a vacuum at the heart of our culture. As Saul Bellow argued in his 1976 Noble Laureate lecture, “The intelligent public is waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, and social theory and what it cannot hear from pure science: a broader, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive [...]

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Reflections on Suffering

15 August 2012

What is the meaning of suffering? Should God spare us from suffering when He didn’t spare his own Son? To be able to trust God even through suffering is a gift that is hard-won. Lately, I have been pondering a lot on suffering, its source and its purpose. To say that God doesn’t figure actively [...]

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The hiddenness of God

8 August 2012

Why isn’t God more obvious? This question is often asked in many ways and in many contexts. When prayers go unanswered, why is God silent? When suffering or tragedy strikes, why would God allow this to happen? When struggling over the countless millions who do not know about God revealed in Jesus Christ, why wouldn’t [...]

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Questions from my children

1 August 2012

When questions you thought you had settled long ago rise again to the surface, it is easy to side with the sceptic in questioning the very goodness of God. The questions flowed freely, as though a massive reservoir of bitterness and sorrow had burst open. “How do we know that we can trust the Bible? [...]

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