Dr Paul Allen

Christ Blessing Little Children (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Author: Venettha Rendell.  "Don’t take this wrong, but we prayed before our children were born, and all of them were born healthy.” I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to take that. We had just told a new acquaintance that our infant son, Paul, had died several years earlier, after we had already grieved three difficult miscarriages . I felt judged. According to this person speaking to me, Paul’s death and my miscarriages were easily preventable. It was simple. We hadn’t prayed enough. We had neglected to do our part. In short, we were to blame. This attitude wasn’t new to me. I had felt this mixture of judgment and pressure from the day I learned of Paul’s heart problem four months into the pregnancy. Concerned friends had rallied around, assuring me of healing for my unborn son. “Pray, believing you will receive,” they urged from James 5, “and he will be healed.” So I prayed. I fasted. I recited set prayers. I rea...

The Christian worldview has suffered significant atrophy in the modern age–and virtually all of this can be traced to a significant shift in the doctrine of God .  The God worshipped by millions of modern persons–including some who identify as Christians–is a deity cut down to postmodern size. This God is more a spectator than a sovereign, and largely leaves his creatures to make their own way. This formless “God” may be popular–but He is not the God of the Bible. The Christian doctrine of God is rooted in this most fundamental truth–that God and God alone is sovereign. The Bible reveals the true and living God in this way, and without this revealed knowledge we would know nothing of Him, for He is incomprehensible and beyond the reach of our creaturely investigation.  There is much we cannot know of God, for as the Apostle Paul asked, “How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways.” [Romans 11:33] There are questions about God we simply should not ask...