“A friend of mine says the Bible is very negative toward women, and this is why society has oppressed women throughout history. Is this true?”
“I'm in my 70s and almost completely crippled with arthritis. I know this is God's punishment for all the years I ignored Him. Is there anything I can do to make up for all those lost years? I wish I hadn't lived the way I did. It wasn't worth it.”
“During Lent, I've been reading in the Bible about the last weeks of Jesus' life, and I've been puzzled by something. Why did the crowds turn against Jesus so quickly? One week they welcomed Him, and the next week they demanded He be crucified.”
“I’ve just gotten out of the hospital after trying to take my own life. Things are better with me now and I don’t plan to go down that road again, but how can I be sure I won’t? Will God help me?”
“How do you know whether or not a person really believes in God? My friend says he met God a few months ago, but it hasn't made any difference in his life that I can tell. When I said something to him about it he just got upset and told me to mind my own business.”
“My mother and I always had a very rocky relationship. But now that she’s gone I feel very guilty, because I discovered after she died that she’d been severely abused as a child, and this was probably why she had so many problems. I wish I could go back and make things right, but I can’t. Maybe if you print my letter it’ll help someone else.”
“I know I am a Christian, but I just don't feel at home in most of the churches I've been to. Getting dressed up and smiling at people I don't know and everything like that seems so phony to me. Why should I bother with church? I don't need to go to church to be a good Christian, do I?”
“Every time I visit my grandmother in her nursing home I come away saddened because so many of the people there are lonely and never have anyone visit them. Why don’t churches try to get some of their members to do this? I know they’d be appreciated.”
“How can someone who’s very nice one minute explode in anger the next? I have a cousin like this. He’s very active in his church and I have no reason to doubt his faith, but it’s like walking on thin ice to be around him because you never know what will set him off.”
“My son and his family moved in with me when he lost his job. But now that he has a good job they don’t show any signs of moving, and I’m afraid he’s just taking advantage of me. I’m a widow and not in the best of health, and with their three young children and two dogs packed into the house, it’s hard on me. Would it be wrong for me to suggest they move?”
“I committed my life to Jesus a couple of years ago through a Bible study some friends invited me to, and He has really changed my life. But my husband has no interest in God, and since I no longer like to do the things he does (like spend time in bars and casinos), we're just drifting apart. Should I leave him? We just don't have anything in common.”
“I asked Jesus to come into my life at a church camp this past summer, but I’m not sure if He’s still there. I haven’t lived up to what I know He expects of me, and now I’m afraid I’ve lost my salvation. How can I get it back?”