Josh Benner

Category: Commentary

  • When we’re tempted to second guess God…

    I was going through Lee Strobel’s latest book The Case for Miracles last week. The final chapter in the book was a poignant discussion entitled: “When miracles don’t happen.” In that chapter, Strobel interviews Douglas Groothuis who’s a professor at Denver Seminary. In the interview, they talk about the health of Groothuis’s wife Becky, a…

  • Can a loving God allow hell to exist?

    Originally published: November 14, 2016 Hell is a tough doctrine. In his book the Problem of Pain, CS Lewis sums up what I think many would agree with: “There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power. But it has the full support of Scripture…

  • Cell phones and the cost of reliving the moment

    Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to relive the moment that we don’t really live it the first time. I was watching Evel Live Sunday night, when daredevil Travis Pastrana was breaking some of Evel Knievel’s records. The culmination of the event was Pastrana taking a ramp and jumping the fountains at Ceasar’s…

  • Tomi Lahren swings and misses on abortion

    Life is bigger than politics.   This weekend, Fox News pundit Tomi Lahren (a woman who’s generally conservative-libertarian but who happens to be pro choice) argued that abortion isn’t a battle worth fighting. In her argument, Lahren says that conservatives lose on social issues. I think this is part of the failure of her argument.…

  • Challenges of the Thai soccer team’s rescue

    It’s an incredible story. A group of 12 boys in Thailand, accompanied by their soccer coach are trapped in a cave. The boys ages range between 11-16. They had gone into a cave as part of a team initiation ritual. Then the waters came. The group was forced further into the cave. But the waters…