Book Review: Nate Pickowicz’s ‘The Kindness of God: Beholding His Goodness in a Cruel World’
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“The book wraps up with a pair of chapters that show how God’s kindness is also reflected in Christians… and in his grace to the nations” - Challies
Is God Good All the Time?
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“When a believer in Christ suffers affliction, be it discouragement, hurt, confusion, or even possible imprisonment and death, it’s tempting to doubt God’s goodness.” - Reasons
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Giving Thanks for the Goodness of God
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“We think we know what it means for God to be good, until we try to explain it. Then we usually start listing other attributes…. It takes some reflection to understand all that we mean—or should mean—when we confess that God is good.” - Kevin DeYoung
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Beauty Everywhere, Even Online
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“Watching others captivated by the wonder of simply seeing or hearing is a powerful statement on the goodness of God’s world.” - Breakpoint
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“We won our soccer game. Isn’t God good!” ... he was good to the team that lost, too.
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“The Bible’s story is very different from this sort of self-referential, circumstance-based thinking. God is good all the time. And he’s great all the time. He’s bigger than anything.” - Olinger
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“Thanksgiving links the two as we better understand God through his gifts.”
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“Giving thanks provides perspective. Gratitude humbles us. It crushes pride and sweeps away entitlement.” - TGC
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Did Jonathan Edwards Undermine Calvinism?
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“How can God be truly virtuous, truly good in a meaningful way, and foreordain the fall of humanity into sin and certain individuals to eternal torment in hell? It is impossible to reconcile Edwards’s account of God and virtue and ‘goodness’ with what he believed as a Calvinist about God’s sovereignty with regard to reprobation.” - Roger Olson
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Though God Slay Me: COVID19 and the Believer
COVID-19 has brought the whole world to its knees. It is a world-wide pandemic in which none of us are completely immune: not to the disease itself nor to its effects. The novel coronavirus is fearful for many reasons. We face the loss of economic health and activity, the loss of social comfort from our friends and family, and for our loved ones or ourselves, perhaps the loss of the ability to breathe, which is life itself.
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