Comments on: Better Than We Think

By: Michael Buckingham

Michael Buckingham — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:28:15 +0000

I love your perspective. News and social media often take the opposite approach.

As someone who lost two loved ones to COVID I would caution that 1% of a billion or even a million is still a very large number. I in no way mean this to discredit your point. I love where your head is at and I will probably read the book.

Blessings!

By: Scott C Small

Scott C Small — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:51:52 +0000

Great perspective!
Thank you for the reminder!

By: Scott La Point

Scott La Point — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:22:39 +0000

A lifetime ago, literally, when I was a copy editor/journalist for a small, Gannett newspaper in Louisiana, I remember sitting in an editorial meeting hearing the managing editor share pointers with writers on angles they needed to take with their reporting. Making the news took precedent over the reporting of local and national matters. That I ended up getting fired from that job is what eventually launched me into a new career. Though I have no answers to why the media have changed so much over the past 30 years, I don’t believe that we are without hope or are on a course for self destruction. If my reading of the Bible is correct, the ache in my heart for those who are hungry or who are battling sickness, cancer, or some other malady, isn’t lost on a God who is indifferent to life’s ills. No, God continues to work all things together for good, even when the “facts” confound us and are determined to tell us differently.

By: Elaine Mostaert

Elaine Mostaert — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:37:03 +0000

Thank you so much Philip,
What a relief !!!
Things are so much better than I thought. How did I go on this test ?
Not well at all.
In so many ways Philip, you bring joy to the heart.

By: Colleen Norrgard

Colleen Norrgard — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:00:51 +0000

What an interesting email ! I have read most of your books and look forward to this one as it will be well written as usual! You have a way of explaining even in historical readings being easier to read , bringing it to such an interesting read for your many readers.

Sending prayers to you for your Parkinson’s illness, that you might to might continue to live into our Saviors love and promises .

By: Donna Handley Hastings

Donna Handley Hastings — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:37:50 +0000

Your wrings always reflect a positive view of life.! I have read most of your books, and always feel inspired in reading the books.

By: Donna Handley Hastings

Donna Handley Hastings — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:24:47 +0000

Your worldview is always positive. I have enjoyed your books, especially “Whatever Became of Grace.” Your views on the church are right on, and you have chronicled the issues well. I always look forward to reading more of your thoughts.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:44:23 +0000

Thank you for this enlightening information. In spite of the politically unjust and violent climate Jesus was born and raised in, He told His followers “in the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” I pray that Christ followers would incline our thoughts more towards God’s promises, hope, and peace. That we not only take heart, but take to heart the good news of the gospel and bring that light into the dark places He calls us. I’m convicted of how often our conversations are centered on media talking points, and ask God to bring us to Phil. 4:8. Fill us to overflowing with God’s peace.

By: Peter A. Olsson MD

Peter A. Olsson MD — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:25:27 +0000

The vast exponential savagery and blood thirsty evil behavior, emotional arousal, and prideful display of pure evil by Hamas against Israel rationalized by some pro-Hamas American demonstrators as in some way moral equivalent disputes FACTFULNESS’s good news. Until Islam reforms itself worldwide from fundamentalist radical Islamo-Fascism among its brothers and sisters , Islam’s Allah can not join in God’s grace through Jesus.

By: vicki

vicki — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:22:36 +0000

Thank you for trying to help us be more positive. I appreciate it…..I always need that….. especially after almost three years of massive anxiety and depression from coming off an anti depressant too quickly! ugh. It’s been tough.
Interestingly i knew that C was the answer to every question…but it doesn’t help in my depressive state as MY mind only goes to the whatever percent of people that are miserable or unhappy at war or have cancer or are starving in Africa, or are being sex-trafficked and those aging and dying of covid and other things….. Even when i read about all the good, and how much better and safer the world is, and how many more rights woman have, and all that…my heart still just aches for the other ones who dont have food, or who do have cancer, or are miserably sick in chronic pain, or at war, or like Joni, (my neighbor!) in a wheelchair for LIFE!! I long for them to have better lives….. and i feel that guilt that’s been put out there that I shouldn’t be so blessed and allowed to live in my entitled state! (which i basically do).
I’m not sure how to deal with that…..guessing I need a good therapist 🙂
I haven’t found a good enough one yet in 65 years.
But I do just keep going back to God and that’s the comfort I have here, in this life, in this world. <3 there is no better comfort than the love and death of God.