Beyond The Rim…

I find it hard to believe how much the Terri Shiavo case has affected me and how upset the inexorable grinding of our dysfunctional legal system has made me. A simple reading of the evidence says something is very remiss…

Matt Wrechard at the Belmont Club has been characterizing the Terri Shiavo situation as a “butterfly effect” in that it will have far reaching and currently unknown effects well beyond its absolute significance. One specific section at the end of…

We visited my friend Martin’s church (Good Shepherd, CEC) for Easter services. I wanted to participate in the liturgy and receive communion for my celebration of Christ’s resurrection, but Martin also has good insights in his sermons as well. This…

“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.” We say that powerful closing to the Lord’s prayer with the advantage of hindsight, but at this moment it does not appear so. If…

After a long journey we have reached our goal. It was a modest objective, just to blog something about my ongoing spiritual insights for each day of my Lenten observance. I began Lent with my life in a dry space…

Dear Lord, on this day when you sacrificed your life on the cross of Calvary, remember your humble servant Terri Shiavo. Lord, we place her in your loving arms, as Nicodemus placed you in the loving arms of your mother….

For if you do, I will punch you straight away in the face. Yes, it will probably get me arrested. Yes, it will open me up to a law suit. Yes, I will still do it, for nothing has made…

It is overcast and chilly, with a bit of rain now and then; in all, a fitting Good Friday. Today is the saddest, most agonizing day in the history of creation. It is the day that the Son of God…

As Christians we believe that God has revealed himself to us through many vehicles, but primarily through his Word. In chapter six of Knowing God Dr. Packer addresses the third person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, who among…

Like earlier this week, I have moved the meditation on the last seven words of Jesus to a separate posting. Having recently left the desert, the fifth phrase, “I am thirsty,” would seem an appropriate meditation, if it where not…