Why is there pain in the world?  Do science and Scripture agree?  Why does God allow evil in this world?  These and many other crucial issues about Christianity are intelligently addressed in Know Why You Believe, helping believers connect faith with reason.  Billy Graham lauds this book as "scholarly, articulate, yet simple."

Book Excerpt

"God's pledge is not that suffering will never afflict us but that it will never separate us from his love.  Perhaps the greatest test of faith for the Christian today is to believe that God is good.  There is much in our lives and culture that, taken in isolation, suggests the contrary.  Around the many edges of our lives, much is blurred, many events and circumstances we do not understand.  But they can be rightly interpreted by the clarity we see in the center -- the cross of Christ.  God never asks us to understand but just to trust him... peace comes when we recognize that in this life we do not have the full picture.  Yet we do have enough to show us the edges will be great.  At times it is our reaction to suffering, rather than the suffering itself, that determines whether the experience is one of blessing or of blight."