Why Does God Allow Tragedy in My Life?
Dear Roger and Brie, After devastating occurrences taking place in my life one after the other, I have given up on God. As somebody who from an early age has…
Dear Roger and Brie, After devastating occurrences taking place in my life one after the other, I have given up on God. As somebody who from an early age has…
Dear Brie, I’m stuck in a situation where I just can’t win. My boss is asking me to overlook some financial issues or lose my job. I can’t afford to…
Dear Roger and Brie, It seems like the world is falling apart. I’m scared. My friends and I talk about what is happening to the global economy and I just…
(Brie): It has been just over a year now since my beloved father, Dr. Roger Barrier, went to be with the Lord. My friends and readers, grief is hard. It’s…
Dear Roger and Brie, I can hardly check the news, go to the grocery store, or get a tank of gas without hugeanxiety. My family and I are barely making…
Dear Roger and Brie, How many times should I pray for someone to be healed? Especially when I see that healing just isn’t happening? I have friends who ask me…
ASK ROGER and BRIE Dear Roger and Brie, I wake up all the time with my heart pounding and my mind racing in a thousand directions. It even feels hard…
Is a Fetus Really a Person? Scientific Facts from a Christian Neurosurgeon At the young age of 35, Dr. Timothy Cheves is a force of nature. He’s earned multiple doctoral…
How Can I Know God Exists? Dear Roger and Julie, I have wrestled with questions about God for as long as I can remember. How do I know for sure…
ASK ROGER and BRIE What does prostitution have to do with God’s love? Dear Roger and Brie, So, God told Hosea to marry a prostitute? WHAT?!? How is that supposed…
ASK ROGER AND FRIENDS How Should I Respond to a Transgender Person? Dear Roger, I have met several individuals that identify as “transgender.” I am appalled at the thought that…
ASK ROGER AND BRIE Dear Roger and Brie, I think God’s calling me to go into full-time ministry. I feel it in my gut. When I pray, it comes to…
I try to have a regular prayer life, but I feel like my prayers hit the ceiling. I promise God I will change, and I end up doing the same…
Dear Roger, I struggle with fear all the time. I wake up with my stomach in knots. I can’t shake the feeling that something horrible is going to happen. Can…
Dear Roger, I can’t go on like this. The suffering is too great. I am learning how to cope. Would you give me some advice? Sincerely, Hurting. Dear Hurting, I…
Joy. The dictionary defines it as “the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying.” The apostle James tells us to “Consider it pure joy,…
How do you shelter in place? Are you climbing the walls? I have learned this skill over many years. So many people have asked how I’m doing during the quarantine.…
Ever wake up with a pounding heart, racing brain, and knots in your stomach? I hate anxiety. My body and brain are just convinced that the world is falling apart,…
Where were you on 9/11? 18 years ago today, I was in a classroom at Dallas Theological Seminary, listening to an early morning lecture on the book of Revelation. Another…
Ever had God blow your socks off? Shock you with His goodness? Leave you speechless with His plan? This weekend I was reading the new book by Richard Preston.…
Revelation chapters four and five provide a unique opportunity to experience a bit of heaven—and John’s description is the tiniest glimpse of a mind-blowing reality we cannot even begin…
A friend of mine is watching his daughter die. She’s only eighteen. Last month, they were sitting side-by-side on the bleachers at her volleyball games, cheering her team to…
My husband almost died in July 2016. Brad is an incredibly strong man. Tough as nails. I was working over at Brad’s office, and I found him unconscious on the…
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” Here we find an example of Jesus comforting his disciples. When He tells them not to…
I don’t talk about this much. It’s too hard. But God calls me to share it now and then. This is one of those times. I know, because I heard…
Who is God? Where did He come from? Why am I here? How can a loving God let people suffer? How could He create Satan and a Hell? What exactly…
Her brother was gone. The grief welled up in her heart, threatening to spill over in a flood of tears. Nights of nursing, the best care she could possibly give…
Nehemiah was the cupbearer to the king in the Persian winter palace in Susa. The king of Persia had previously stopped the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, possibly perceiving…
1. Gold and Honey – Psalm 19:10 Here, the psalmist declares that the Word of God is more desirable than the finest gold and sweeter than honey. I believe that…
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so…