by Timothy Shorey | Mar 24, 2021 | Apologetics, Biblical Studies, The Christian Life, Youth
Bumper Sticker Philosophy Some of you are way too young to remember when bumper stickers were popular. When I was younger, you could tell a lot about the person driving a car by the stickers plastered onto its rear bumper. Before Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok, you...
by Timothy Shorey | Feb 17, 2021 | Apologetics, Biblical Studies, The Christian Life, Youth
Things We Cannot Understand We’ve been thinking about the futility of “Whyning”—the universal human impulse to ask Why about life’s painfully confusing and seemingly senseless mysteries. And we come now to a final reason why such Whyning is futile: there are many...
by Timothy Shorey | Feb 3, 2021 | The Christian Life, Youth
Previously, we’ve suggested that in our never ending quest for human meaning, people love to ask “Why”. Either as geeks, who want to know all the information behind it all, or as gurus, who want to know all the reasons for it all, people everywhere are chasing madly...
by Timothy Shorey | Jan 13, 2021 | Apologetics, The Christian Life, Youth
(Ecclesiastes 1:12-18) Sisyphus and Camus I don’t remember what he did to get into such trouble, but in ancient Greek legend, Sisyphus got some mythical gods miffed at him. As punishment, they forced him to push a rock up a mountain only to have it roll back down to...
by Timothy Shorey | Dec 30, 2020 | The Christian Life, Youth
(Part 3 of a twice-a-month series aimed at teens, twenty-somethings, and old folks like me.) Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:11 Help in the Middle of Meaninglessness Ecclesiastes and I go way back to 1986, when I was 27. Within a two-year span back then, thirteen people...
by Timothy Shorey | Dec 16, 2020 | The Christian Life, Youth
Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:1-14 Zeno Zapped I don’t like riddles. My brain freezes over when someone zings me with a confusing question with no easy answer. Zeno, on the other hand, loved riddles. He’s a dead guy from over 2,000 years ago; a really smart Greek geek who...
