Essays and Literature

No Easy Answers in a War Zone


How can you answer troubling questions about God that have no easy answers? How can you talk about God’s love to traumatized people in a war zone, when God seems so distant and disengaged from their suffering? Tim shares how he is sharing faith, hope, and love to those in the current war zones of our world.

What can we expect from God now?


In response to the COVID-19 global crisis, a nine part essay series on trusting God in troubled times.

Inter-Faith Dialogue

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How do we as Christians interact with and love those from other religions? In this collection of stand alone, individual essays you will find suggestions on how to engage meaningfully in conversation with individuals from different faiths.

Knowing God

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The series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life.

Dialogue with the Disillusioned

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Why do we keep praying, especially in the face of disappointment with God? What should we think, and how should we respond, when our prayers are not answered as we hope? These questions and more are explored in this series of essays written in consideration of the many disillusioned people who have written or spoken to me over the years.

Benefiting from Buddhism


This series of articles was prompted by extended time teaching in Southeast Asia in a predominately Buddhist context. It is designed to help Christians to more constructively think about and interact with those who think, believe, or live differently than they—and to grow personally and spiritually in the process.