God's Rest Means We Carry His Burdens Instead of Ours
Following God isn’t easy for me. It takes a lot of work. I do a lot of things I wouldn’t do if I weren’t a Christ-follower, and I don’t...
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Bill Wichterman
- Oct 16, 2022
It's Not My Money
I once heard a wealthy and generous philanthropist say that if it were his money, no one else would get a dime. Instead, he saw his...
Bill Wichterman
- Jul 17, 2022
First Things First: Sleep, Eat, Exercise, and Walk with God
Like you, I often have friends tell me they’re depressed – not necessarily clinically depressed, which is physiological and may need a...
Bill Wichterman
- Jul 4, 2022
Can I Hold Anything Back From God and Still Go to Heaven?
Some of Jesus’ words literally scare the hell out of me. One haunting thing He said was that not everyone who calls Him Lord will go to...
Bill Wichterman
- Apr 3, 2022
My Many Unanswered Prayers
When I was a new follower of Christ around age 17, an older Christian encouraged me to keep a prayer diary. He said I’d be amazed to see...
Bill Wichterman
- Feb 26, 2022
What if God Exists?
I was a dedicated Christian when I lost my faith in college. It was a huge blow to me. Far from liberating me to live however I wanted,...
Bill Wichterman
- Jan 29, 2022
Unbearable Suffering: Not What You Think It Means
There is an urban legend among many Christians that God doesn’t give us more than we can bear. The problem is Scripture never says that.
Bill Wichterman
- Nov 20, 2021
The Logic of Love
On October 2, 2006, a married father of three young children walked into an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, barricading...
Bill and Dana Wichterman
- Nov 13, 2021
Why We Added a Second Bottom Line
Give someone a fish and they’ll eat for a day, but invest in a for-profit commercial fishery and their community could prosper and...
Bill Wichterman
- Nov 9, 2021
Culture: Upstream From Politics
(Published in Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance, ed. Don Eberly; Eerdmans, 2001; pp. 75-100). Political...
Bill Wichterman
- Aug 22, 2021
God is Unreasonable
On July 4, I was at a party, and I got into conversation with a woman I had just met. You know the rule about not talking about politics...
Bill Wichterman
- May 2, 2021
What It Means to Die to Yourself
A work colleague of mine asked me about what it means to “die to yourself,” which I had written on a blogpost. It’s a good question. Even...
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