When I think of Christmas I think of the King of Love laid in a manger – Sovereignty supine under sterling stars twinkling through millennia of delight, Sublimity submitted to the gaze of cherubim and seraphim and slack-jawed shepherds. When I think of Christmas I think of a Son, A Son, whose tiny hands, emptied of…
Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages offers couples and people in general a means to communicate with each other at the deepest of levels – at the level where a person’s need is discovered and then met through the action of another. When this occurs, Chapman contends, love was the intent and the result…
Years ago, in the 60’s and 70’s, I was part of the Jesus People Movement. It was during those days that I heard street-wise preachers like Phil in school auditoriums and in public parks. Hundreds of us teenagers attended. We brought our school friends with us and many believed. And after they believed we took…
The American Studies Association has passed a resolution promoted by the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement to single out Israel alone for an academic boycott. You can read the whole sordid back story here at Legal Insurrection’s post: Boycott, Divest and Sanction the American Studies Association Added: some thoughts on the collectivist’s worshipful…
Psalm 8 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the…
If nothing else, Terrence Malick’s movies are visually stunning, beautiful by any measure of the soul. We are capitvated and drawn in by the visual beauty, a Lily of the Valley Beauty. In his latest movie ‘To the Wonder” we can hear Saint Patrick’s Prayer whispered within the music of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 “Symphony of…
You are about to take a bus ride into another dimension. No, not a trip to the Twilight Zone. Or, maybe it IS to the Real Twilight Zone! Despite the nonsense that comes from Oprah’s media pulpit, all roads are not radii that lead to God and Heaven. Instead there will be a Fork in…
Whenever I see the word “Biblical” in front of a title or a statement I pause as anyone should who cares about what the Bible really does or does not say. Recently this word caught my eye: a local Evangelical church, a church of great size, advertised a Biblical Masculinity and Femininity Conference. I thought this rather odd…
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