Category: Tough Questions
What is the essence of Christianity?
https://thornhillbaptist.podbean.com/e/what-is-the-essence-of-christianity
Slavery/Freedom (Redemption)
In Mumbai, India, a young girl who had been trafficked from the north and had been missing for three years was finally tracked down by officials and by an international justice organization. They rescued her from a brothel, where she had been held captive, and she said she had not seen the sun for three…
Psalm 46
Psalm 46 is a psalm that has to do not with personal crisis but when the world around seems to be in a state of utter collapse, when the oceans are surging, mountains falling into the sea, the earth caves, and when nations are at war. What does faith look like then? This has always…
Why this blog?
My name is Ken VanderMeulen and I am passionate about the Scriptures as the Word of God, and preaching Jesus accordingly. A few years ago I had a brain tumor and the impact of the treatment meant that I had to resign from my post as pastor. But my passion remains: to get the gospel…
Why is there evil in the world?
If God is loving, why does he allow so much evil in the world? This is an old question, a classic objection to Biblical Christianity, and it’s one that we have talked about on Sunday mornings before today. It’s the kind of question that keeps coming up. The questions of evil and suffering are, of…
Why all the killing in the Old Testament?
In Deuteronomy chapter 7 God orders the Israelites to completely destroy the 7 nations of Canaan, without mercy, and so the conquest of Canaan began at Jericho, with the killing of every man, woman and child in the city. In 1 Samuel 15, God orders King Saul to kill every man, woman, child and even…