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Use the following questions to stimulate your personal reflection as well as for group discussion. A PDF version with space for writing answers is available as a free download.

One of the most difficult challenges for a Christian student is to be in a classroom with a professor who is openly hostile to faith in Christ. 

We all talk to ourselves. Whether or not this is a good practice depends largely on what we are saying, and whether it is true and helpful.  

The popular “name it and claim it” teaching—also called the health and wealth gospel—is not limited to certain congregations, but has worked its way into mainstream evangelical churches where it gets subtly woven into many Christians’ worldviews.

C. S. Lewis, in The Great Divorce, wrote that “both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective… Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”

I love the transcendence of great music, a gift from our Creator who is, no surprise, creative! 

The expression YOLO, “you only live once," rightly recognizes you will die, but assumes that you will never live again after you die. The Good News is radically different.

Someone has said, “Live simply that others may simply live.” Of course, there is no automatic relationship between my simple living and someone else being rescued from starvation or reached with the gospel.

Most people you meet are partial to dogs or cats. Some, as in the case of the man in this video, are even partial to pigs.

If Christian parents remind their Christian children that the worst that can happen in death is temporary separation, it’s reassuring. 

While most pastors I know are men of honesty and integrity, it’s a sad truth that the problem of pastors plagiarizing is more wide spread than many realize.

On the one hand, because we’re told in multiple passages that our resurrection bodies will be like Christ’s, it may be possible at times for us to transcend the present laws of physics and/or travel in some way we’re not now capable of. 

For those just starting college, or returning, this series of video blogs from Desiring God is outstanding. 

Randy Alcorn talks about his book hand in Hand and the beauty of the seemingly paradoxical subjects of sovereignty and free will.