“My friend believes that when we die we don't go to heaven or anything like that, but we live our lives all over again, perhaps in other parts of the universe. Does the Bible say anything that might support this?”
“Does God ever give us a second chance? I've made some bad decisions about my life the last few years and now I'm paying the price for them. Does this mean God has given up on me and things will never get any better?”
“One of my friends has turned her back on me because she's gotten involved with a group that's wrapped up in some form of mystical meditation and talks about the earth as our mother, and things like that. I don't know if you'd call it a cult, but she refuses to have anything to do with me now because I'm a Christian. How can I help her?”
“I'm having a hard time these days, both physically (several surgeries in recent years) and spiritually. I know I asked Christ to come into my life when I was a teenager, but now I wonder if I'd go to heaven if something happened to me. How can I know?”
“Our daughter has had a successful kidney transplant, and now she's urging us to sign up as organ donors. Do you see anything wrong with this? I've always been told we need to respect our bodies since God gave them to us, and I'm wondering if this might be treating them with disrespect.”
“I have a friend who's what I guess you'd call a serious Christian, and sometimes he'll say things like, “God has been talking to me” about something or, “God wants me to do” something. Did he actually hear God speak?”
“Ten years ago, I told my son I didn't want anything more to do with him because I didn't approve of his immoral lifestyle. Well, now I've got cancer and the prospects aren't good, and I'm wondering if I did the right thing. I feel so alone, and he's the only family I have.”
“I’m in drug rehab for the third time in a year. Nothing seems to work. I’ll think I’ve got it licked, and then I’ll fall back into my old ways. I promised my parents I’d write you, but I’m not even sure I believe in God.”
“We did our best to raise our two sons in a loving home, and we always took them to church and urged them to follow Jesus. One has turned out very well, with a fine family and active in his church, but our other son was always rebellious and now is in prison for dealing drugs. What did we do wrong? We must've been terrible parents to have such a son.”
“I know I'm supposed to pray, but I've always had this feeling that God must be too busy to bother with the little things I worry about. I suppose you won't agree with me, but why?”
“My friend says God uses tragedy to bring us closer to Himself, but how can that be? I've always thought God loved us, so why would He use something terrible to make us love Him?”
“I've tried to read the Bible, but as far as I can tell it just talks about people who lived a long time ago, and I don't see much point in trying to find out what they did. What am I missing?”