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PrefaceLucy and Linus are gazing out the window at a staggering downpour.“Boy, look at it rain,” Lucy says, fear etched on her face. “Whatif it floods the whole world?”“It will never do that,” Linus responds confidently. “In the ninthchapter of Genesis, God promised Noah that would never happenagain, and the sign of the promise is the rainbow.”“You’ve taken a great load off my mind,” Lucy says with a sighof relief.Linus replies, “Sound theology has a way of doing that!”That is my aim in this book: to articulate good theology in orderto put worried minds at rest. All of us are familiar with the sortsof problems and questions and doctrinal conundrums that plaguethe human mind and agitate the human heart, questions like theone lingering in the thinking of Lucy: Will God ever flood the entireearth again?In my experience these nearly forty years of Christian ministry,I’ve seen countless people worried and angry and fearful and justplain confused when it comes to some of the more perplexing issuesthat life poses and the Bible provokes, such as:• Sam, is my baby in heaven?• Is it ever okay to divorce your spouse, and if it is, can I get remarried?