Dealing With Doubt

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Aug.
2-6

Michael Gleghorn — Have you ever doubted your faith? We all have doubts from time to time. We may doubt that our boss really hit a hole-in-one at the golf course last weekend, or that our best friend really caught a fish as big as the one he claimed to catch, or that the strange looking guy on that light night TV show was really abducted by alien beings from a distant galaxy! Sometimes the things we doubt aren’t really that important, but other times they are. And the more important something is to us, the more personally invested we are in it, the scarier it can be to start having doubts about it. So when Christians begin to have doubts about something as significant as the truth of their Christian faith, it’s quite understandable that this might worry or even frighten them.

Reflecting on this issue in The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel wrote:

For many Christians, merely having doubts of any kind can be scary. They wonder whether their questions disqualify them being a follower of Christ. They feel insecure because they’re not sure whether it’s permissible to express uncertainty about God, Jesus, or the Bible. So they keep their questions to themselves—and inside, unanswered, they grow and fester . . . until they eventually succeed in choking out their faith.

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Michael GleghornMichael Gleghorn

"Have you ever wrestled with doubts about your Christian faith? I know I have! Whether it's dealing with some nagging doubt about a particular Christian doctrine, or seriously struggling with doubts about the goodness or love of God, all Christians who are seriously engaged with their faith will periodically have to confront the Goliath of doubt. That's why I wrote this program. I wanted to assure my fellow believers that such doubts are normal, as well as offer some practical steps that can help us slay (or at least seriously cut down to size) this taunting giant."

Michael is a research associate with Probe Ministries. After earning a B.A. in psychology from Baylor University and a Th.M. in systematic theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he is back at DTS pursuing more suffering a Ph.D. in theology. The joy of Michael's life is his wife Hannah, their daughter and their brand new baby boy.

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