Category: Christianity

It is Sunday evening and the weekend is almost over. That has gotten me to thinking about the importance that we all seem to attach to this weekly time off from work. Our culture appears to see weekends as the…

Sometimes God just puts you in the right place at the right time so He can have His say. God did just that for a mother in Arizona earlier this week. As Maura was walking down the hallway of the…

In the process of teaching Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, which I have done five or six times, I have always challenged the group to write a prayer of their own to someone they love. I asked them to base…

I had originally hoped to get this out by 6 A.M. EDT, but I underestimated the amount of work involved. Kudos to all who have done this ahead of me and I offer my prayers for those coming behind. Most…

If you are a Christian who believes in the Great Commission and takes your faith seriously, then you should be aware of the recent argument made by the author of Belmont Club, Matt Wretchard (he calls himself Wretchard The Cat),…

I have been reading, at the request of my wife, Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know by C. J. Mahaney, the senior pastor at my daughter’s church. There is also a section in…

This week’s Carnival is here at Beyond the Rim… So, be thinking about submitting an article or getting your blogger friends to submit an article. Email me – use the button on the sidebar or send it to beyondtherim at…

Sunday usually gets me thinking about abstract things, such as what I have been thinking about today, happiness. John Steward Mill in arguing for a Utilitarian ethic said that the highest normative principal was Actions are right in proportion as…

Fridays. The world in which we live views Friday with its own acronym, TGIF (Thank God [or goodness] its Friday), since the general view is that work is something we can’t wait to get away from so we can be…

Emerson argued that pride always injures–“No man ever had a point of pride that wasn’t injurious to him.” Maybe it doesn’t get you immediately, but eventually pride, to quote Proverbs 16:18, goes before the fall. It is pride that helps…