by Pete Enns | Aug 7, 2017 | Christian faith and life, doubt
In my last post, we looked at your 5 biggest challenges to staying Christian from a survey I took a few years ago. Now let’s move on and talk about moving forward amid those challenges. I’m a little nervous about using language of “moving on” and “moving...
by Pete Enns | Aug 3, 2017 | Christian faith and life, doubt
A few years ago on this blog I conducted a survey of sorts. I asked my readers to tell me their one or two biggest challenges to staying Christian. Including private emails, I got about 300 responses, many of them heartfelt and moving. I honor your courage...
by Pete Enns | Jul 26, 2017 | doubt, The Sin of Certainty
I get a lot of great, honest questions from my students. Here’s one: “How do you read James 1:6-7, particularly as it concerns doubting? It seems as though James is saying that those who doubt God’s power are like waves and what not. Is this a...
by Pete Enns | Mar 13, 2017 | doubt, The Work of the People, Uncategorized
Here is a brief video about the Psalms, the dark side of faith, and some other themes from The Sin of Certainty. The video is the work of the one and only Travis Reed of The Work of the People. (Other videos Travis and I made together can be found here.) I am very...
by Pete Enns | Feb 3, 2017 | doubt, Uncategorized
I get a lot of great, honest questions from my students on almost a daily basis. Here is one from yesterday: “How do you read James 1:6-7, particularly as it concerns doubting, It seems as though James is saying that those who doubt God’s power are like...
by Pete Enns | Jan 18, 2017 | Christian faith and life, doubt, Uncategorized
Ever feel like you don’t have your spiritual act together, like you’re not feeling that “victory in Jesus” everyone else seems to have bubbling out of their eyes and ears? Me too. Some time back it dawned on me that the Old Testament can help here, more than the...
