Category: Christianity

Pastor Mark Driscoll over at Acts 29 has a post on Religion versus the Gospel (H.T. The Evangelical Outpost). Mark uses the religion says this while the gospel says that approach. For example: Religion says, if I obey, God will…

In the Lord of the Rings, Faramir, one of the Dúnadan and a prince of Gondor says to Éowyn, a princess of Rohan: I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor…

This a posting from January 30, 2005 that I still find uniquely insightful. Rimshots #17 “Hell” “Hell is a debtor’s prison where all means of payment have disappeared.” William Meisheid Sometimes my mind goes off on tangent while listening to…

There is buried deep in our soul echoes of our former innocence, the desire for God, whether interpreted correctly or not; it includes the faded memory of the eternal purpose of our existence. While many substitute other things for that…

Due to several converging items, our weekend stretched into five days, beginning Thursday with our daughter’s graduation from college and culminating Monday with a picnic celebrating our thirtieth (30) wedding anniversary. In between there was a lot of work, dental…

Many people suffer from synthetic attitudes. This state of mind can come from living in a dichotomy between the image you feel obliged to present to the world and what is your true sense of self. It is like the…

Do you know a geek? Are you yourself a geek? The common image of geeks is of an intelligent and technically competent, though socially backward, often serious backward, individual. I been thinking about geeks and I think I have hit…

Whatever I am doing, whatever the context, I usually find my thoughts from one circumstance begin to shed light on other areas. One of the problems I regularly deal with at work is distractions. I was never meant for a…

“There are none so lost as those who have misled themselves.” That is a quote from Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club from his article “Why We Flight“. That is not a misspelling. It got me to thinking and that…

Out of many tragedies come instances of heroism and sacrifice, and the carnage at Virginia Tech had one such example, all the more poignant because of the man’s personal history. As Cho Seung-Hui made his way through Norris Hall, shooting…