Father/Son Red's Game Outing

He Dad's, the Band of Brothers is sponsoring a Father/Son Red's game outing on Sunday, August 10^th. The cost is $16.95 per ticket. Please pay when you sign-up at the Welcome Center at church.

If you have any questions, please see or talk to Steve Dalton.

Special Golf Benefit

I just became aware of a benefit golf outing for Eve Murphy, a Christian woman of two young children who is battling Leukemia.

This event is scheduled for Saturday, August 2 at Robin's Nest Golf Course located at 8300 Dry Fork Road in Cleves, Ohio. Tee off is at 5 PM but you are asked to be at the course at 4:30.

This is a Glo Ball Night Golf event and should be a lot of fun. (Yes, I know it's still light out at 5 PM, but I guess this is an especially slow group of golfers).

This is great event for a very special person (Eve's Mom and Step-Dad are Ruth and Larry Peeno, longtime members of The Bridge). I hope you can participate.

For more info contact Debbie Schalk at (513) 519-4788

Bo

If God, Why Evil?

This weekend we close our current sermon series, Answers, by discussing the most often cited reason people struggle with belief in God – the existence of evil. Everyone experiences the reality of evil, but does evil deny the existence of God? Eighteenth century, atheistic philosopher David Hume argued that exact point when he paraphrased Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived 300 years before the birth of Christ.

"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?"

Hume’s questions, and many similar arguments, have come to be known as The Problem of Evil. The argument says the God of the Bible, revealed as all knowing, all powerful, and all good, must not exist if evil is present. It is a powerful argument. And one that every Christian must contend with in his or her own heart in the midst of suffering, if not publicly in the face of a skeptic.

Join us on Sunday, when we will explore a few bad responses to the Problem of Evil and then spend a few minutes going over the Biblical response to the evil both in our hearts and in our world.

See you then,

Whitney 

How Can A Loving God Send People To Hell?

This was the question a friend and I considered when I was nineteen years old.  After much discussion we agreed that the idea of hell was inconsistent with a loving God and therefore concluded that hell, if it did exist, was for the really bad people of the world and should not concern a couple of "better than most" types like the two of us.

About a year later I actually began to read the Bible! Boy, was I surprised by how much Jesus had to say about hell!  In fact, no one spoke more about hell in the Bible than did Jesus.

I have long since revived my beliefs about hell since that conversation with my friend so many years ago. Unfortunately, many still hold to their beliefs about the afterlife without regard to what the Bible plainly teaches.

Admittedly, hell is a tough topic to discuss.

Peter Kreeft, a Catholic theologian from Boston College, puts it this way:  "Of all the doctrines of Christianity, hell is the most difficult to defend, the most burdensome to bear, and the first to be abandoned."

Whether you are just exploring Christianity or are a long-time follower of Christ, we all struggle with the doctrine of hell.  We struggle with the notion of fellow human beings suffering for all eternity.  We struggle with believing that a God of love could create and sustain a place of eternal torment.  We struggle with whether it's fair that people go there who don't seem to deserve it—good people, religious people.

Check out the message at https://vimeo.com/99493655

Bo