I’ve been really sick this week. I mean – really sick. There is a gastrointestinal bug going around and it has hit me hard. (I know, it’s more than you need to know….) When you lie in bed long enough, your brain is your only source of entertainment because your body really can’t do anything [...]
Archive for the ‘The Hard Things’ Category
14 Aug
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
A good friend in my Bible Study referred to this poem during one of our discussions. I thought it prudent, at this time in our history, to share it with my friends.
‘On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness’
The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known [...]
7 Mar
Global Food Crisis Day = March 11
Many of you who read my blog know that I am a strong supporter of Compassion International. I also volunteer for them because they are a solid and trustworthy organization. Donations are used wisely with integrity to help those in poverty survive — it’s an organization where children of the world can not only have [...]
24 Feb
Meaningless Offerings
I’m going through a study of Isaiah right now. It’s probably one of the most beautifully written scriptures in the entire Bible. In the first chapter, a certain phrase immediately stood out to me: meaningless offerings. It stopped me dead in my tracks — the truth of it seeming to jump right off the pages, [...]
16 Feb
Beauty From Ashes
How do you define beauty? What is beautiful in your eyes? Some people single-mindedly see beauty in things which are aesthetically pleasing to their individual eye….things which are produced by wealth and human ingenuity….things which make their egocentric minds and souls happy and giggly. Things.
We are surrounded by ‘beautiful people’ ….people we see on the [...]
1 Feb
The End of the Evangelical Church?
The Internet Monk blogger has posted an interesting article which predicts the collapse of the Evangelical Church within 10 years. You can read it here. There are three parts to this discussion.
I have had similar concerns for the past 10 years. I may not agree with his timeline or be as emphatically concerned as he [...]
28 Jan
Love Letters From God
I frequent a Theology social-networking site called Theologica. It’s a great place to bounce ideas off of individuals, some of whom have a lot more knowledge than I do about the world of theology. Recently, a young man named Rey wrote a beautiful post called Love Letters. At the end of his post, he made [...]
21 Jan
Let Us Not Presume
Recently, I listened as a young seminary student from Westminster Seminary in CA taught about a passage in Mark 5:1-20. I’ve read this passage many times, but this young man was able to give an exposition of this passage that was so wonderfully rich in content and full of truth that I literally almost wept.
For [...]
