Category: Christianity

Where do we get our Christian identity? When does it become more than blind adherence to someone else’s beliefs, whether our parents, a spiritual guru or trusted teacher, or some other external source? When does it become our own so…

Things have been so serious around here the past few weeks—job interviews will tend to do that to you—that I thought it was time for a little levity and craziness. With all of the contention going on between “science” and…

Throughout my life I have reflected on the decisions and courses that I have taken and would wish I could go back and have a do-over, much like you can do in some computer games (just go back to this…

I was reading the January 4, 2006 Mark Steyn article from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page and came across this quote: In July 2003, speaking to the U.S. Congress, Tony Blair remarked: “As Britain knows, all predominant power seems…

As I expected, Mike Russell at Eternal Perspectives has started to come out of the other side of his journey through the “Dark Night of the Soul”. There are only two branches on that road and Mike did not disappear…

As a sat down yesterday, after getting the dust vacuumed off, my brother-in-law snapped this picture with his cell phone. The head piece is just a shop rag held on with painter’s tap to keep the dust from destroying what…

My brother-in-law, Ken Zacharias, gave this to me to read and I thought it was wonderful. I pass it on for your edification and amusement. I was listening to a lady who called a radio pastor. The pastor was a…

I am tired, bone-weary tired. So, I decided to see what the Bible had to say about my condition (I have never looked up the word before). A quick look in Strong’s or Young’s will show you that the word…

In Matthew 12:19-21, the Apostle draws on Isaiah 42.2-4 giving hope to all those faced with difficult challenges, who feel like they barely have a grasp on what is left of their life and purpose. He will not quarrel or…

I wrote the following as a comment on Mike Russell’s Eternal Perspectives That is the nature of discipleship, being changed, changed from the old man into the new man. We will be radically different, yet recognizable. Stripped of our dross,…