DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I've been in jail for almost 20 years for killing a man during an armed robbery. The chaplain here says God will forgive me, but I can't make myself believe it. I know I don't deserve ...
Are people sinners because they sin, or do they sin because they’re sinners? Are people lawbreakers because they break God’s Law, or do they break it because they are lawbreakers? No, this isn’t ...
While people should in fact do teshuva for all their sins, they should not be paralyzed by the enormity of the work that needs to be done. The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a ...
One of the most difficult concepts in the Bible to grasp is the reality of sin. The Bible defines sin as “falling short of God’s glory.” (Romans 3:23) We are all guilty. Why does God hate sin so much?
The most perplexing problem in apologetics is the problem of evil: Why would an all-good, all-powerful God allow evil to exist? There is a real mystery here, and we can only give partial answers. Here ...
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I'm in prison for some things I'd rather not talk about, and last week I got to know a murderer here who said God had forgiven him for what he'd done. How does he know? After all, ...
May you be inscribed in the Book of Life. Tonight begins the 24-hour observance of the holiest day of the year to Jews around the world — Yom Kippur. It is the Day of Atonement during which Jewish ...
If Harvey Weinstein went to synagogue on Yom Kippur hoping God would forgive him for his hideous sins against women, he’d be out of luck. Sorry, pal. God may be all ...
A few weeks ago, we talked about a man named Achan and how his secret sin was not a secret to God. The book of Joshua in chapters 6 and 7 reveals this was not a situation where a person steals ...