“All who are thirsty come”

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” Isaiah 55:1 The eye-witness account by the apostle John (and also of a disciple named Philip) relates the true narrative of Jesus meeting a Samaritan…

Tear Down That Anthropocentricity

  It may have been in the later 1970s that I became aware of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  I don’t recall exactly what brought him to my attention. It may have been news reports of the Soviet Union’s exiled dissident. Solzhenitsyn had been deported from the USSR and stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1974. He later came…

Sonogram

            Who Has Believed Our Report?   “Feel! Joseph! Feel!” “Put your hand on my belly!” “A kick! And there, another!” “Feel the dancing embrace? The limbs akimbo?” “My womb, my words have become pregnant with blessing.”   (The Word made has been made flesh – A black and white sonogram prophesied…

Three Atheists I Listen To

Becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, an heir of the King and a fellow servant in the Kingdom of God began when I first believed that God existed. What followed was the understanding that God not only existed but that He is an Infinite-Personal God who, though having created the vast universe ex nihilo using…