David Heller is a young Boston psychologist who, as part of a continuing research interest, collects letters children have written to God. “Dear God: Children’s Letters to God” (New York: Doubleday, 1987) is Heller’s second publication on this subject. In it he reports the following letter: “Dear God, I have doubts about you sometimes. Sometimes I really believe. Like when I was four and I hurt my arm and you healed it up fast. But my question is, if you could do this why don’t you stop all the bad in the world? Like war. Like diseases. Like famine. Like drugs. And there are problems in other people’s neighborhoods too. I’ll try to believe more. (Signed)Ian.” (age 10) (p.121) Who of us cannot relate to that child’s letter to God? Who has not asked the same questions? It is sa…
Dealing with Our Doubts
Mark 9:14-32
Mark 9:14-32
Sermon
by Donald B. Strobe
by Donald B. Strobe
Dynamic Preaching, Collected Words, by Donald B. Strobe