“In biblical times, did God speak to people in a voice they could hear? If so, why doesn’t He do it today? I’d have a much stronger faith if I only heard His voice speaking to me once in a while.”
“How can I know which faith is right for me? There are dozens of churches in my city, and I can't visit all of them. I don't come from a religious family, but now that I've moved away from home I feel I need to change. But how do I start?”
“I don’t understand what’s happening to my wife. She seems to have lost any joy for living, and some days she almost can’t get out of bed. Her doctor says she needs to go on an anti-depressant medicine, but some friends say we just need more faith. She wants me to make the decision, but I don’t know what to do.”
“How can someone be a Christian and yet secretly do something that's obviously illegal? Someone in our church was convicted of embezzlement recently, and now she's headed for prison. How could she do this but still go to church every week?”
“I've always said I'd never go into a nursing home, but after I broke my hip I didn't have any choice. Why did God let this happen to me? I've always wanted to be independent in my old age, and now I'm not, and I don't like it.”
“Where did the world come from? My junior high school science teacher says that it just happened, but my Sunday school teacher says God made it. They can’t both be right, can they?”
“How do you know heaven is real? I'd like to think it is, and my mother looked forward to going there when she died, but maybe heaven is just a myth or fairy tale.”
“I've wasted most of my life — drugs, alcohol, jail, pregnant at 17, you name it. But now I've given my life to Jesus and that's all behind me. But I've still got bad health and a police record from my past, so I can't get a decent job. Will God do something about these, or is it asking too much?”
“Does it really do any good to pray for people who are having problems? I'm not sure anything happens when I pray for someone, or else their problem gets solved without any divine intervention. Why should I bother praying for them?”
“A woman I work with says Jesus is her best friend, but I don't understand what she means. How can you be best friends with someone who lived 2,000 years ago? She seems like an intelligent person but I really don't understand what she's saying.”
“I was discharged from the military recently after being in Iraq for two tours of duty, and while there I barely escaped serious injury or death at least three times. In fact, some of my buddies didn't make it. I can't help but feel that God must have spared me for a reason, but how do I figure out what it is? I'm kind of at loose ends right now.”
“I have a friend who believes that aliens built the pyramids and things like that, and also brought religion into the world. Is there any evidence for this in the Bible? I admit my friend is different and I'm not sure he'll believe what you say, but I'd still be interested in your input because I'd never heard this before.”