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Sunday, 9 June 2013 (Part 2)

For the first part of these thoughts, please see my earlier post, which I prosaically called “Expectations.”  In it I discuss how expectations that developed from the ministry of Elijah might have...

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Note: At the moment my family is traveling, celebrating my father who retired Sunday after 46 years of ministry.  As you can probably imagine, lugging my computer around and writing a post didn’t evoke...

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Sunday, 23 June 2013

NOTE:  This is a topic about which I nearly never post.  In part this is out of respect for my family, not because the topic actually says anything negative about them, but because it’s the sort which...

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Sunday, 7 July 2013

1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but...

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Sunday, 21 July 2013

6 The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, 7 “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches….” — Psalm 52: 6-7a Just about every...

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Sunday, 11 August 2013

32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” — Luke 12: 32 (ESV) This is one of my favorite verses in the New Testament. One of the things that’s...

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Being Reasonable

It’s pretty common (and eminently unjustifiable) for atheists to argue that religion is somehow opposed to reason.  One book actually argues that atheists are trying to defend reason from an assault by...

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Maybe Not a Stone

My television now includes an explicitly pagan channel.  I suppose that’s fair, I’ve had a few explicitly Christian channels for a while.  I’m only startled that I see advertisements for it everywhere....

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For The Record I’m Not Fishing For Compliments (Although It May Seem Like It,...

There’s a certain spiritual discipline which I’ll call “comfort with ignorance.”  It has other names obviously, but that’s the one I’ll use for now. I’ve talked about how Christianity is a rational...

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Latin

Et hoc evanuerit. Sometimes God speaks to me through Latin.  I don’t mean he speaks to me in Latin, although that would certainly be cool.  I mean that sometimes I translate things into Latin and then...

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