God is not a genie in a bottle. Yes, he has a good, pleasing, and perfect will. But this doesn’t mean we should pray for whatever we want. We are sinful people and don’t even know what’s ...

But God is not a genie in a bottle existing simply to grant ... God sees the entire image at once. So while we may not understand why hard things and terrible suffering happen to us, God does ...

“Ask and ye shall receive.” We’ve all heard those words and their promise. “For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” ...

Any halfway decent theologian will tell you that God is decidedly not an old man on a throne in the sky. That this image of God persists somehow in the popular imagination, most likely has to do ...

As author Anne Lamott warned, “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out ... He’s God, not a genie. Those of us who are trying to follow the teachings ...