Author Archives: Galen Zook

Paul didn’t have a million followers or Twitter, he didn’t have a national platform. He wasn’t even always well-known and respected in his field. But he did indeed stay true to his mission and calling. He put in the time, logged the hours, and stayed faithful to the tasks set before him. And so at the end of his life, he could indeed say with all truthfulness, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race…”

Many of us treat the Bible like a reference book – googling what the Bible has to say about certain topics, or searching for encouraging words or phrases to help us get through difficult times. But how should we read the Bible? And what should we do with all those troubling passages that we don’t like?

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth” – 2 Timothy 2:15

Whether we were born into a family of believers or not, we have inherited a legacy of faith that has been passed down to us from generation to generation from the earliest disciples.

In recent years there have been a spate of TV shows that imagine or reimagine life after death. One such show, entitled Upload, is a science fiction comedy-drama which imagines a sort of dystopian future where the family members of people who pass away can pay to upload their deceased relative’s consciousness into a digital afterlife…