Choose Your Garden The Bible mentions several gardens. There’s the Garden of Eden, created perfect, filled with good things albeit not without temptations. Even though man sinned and was booted out and the garden remains unoccupied, the world still compares a place with ideal conditions to the Garden of Eden. I’ve been to some of those places, e.g. Hawaii, the […]
My Dad Is… “and the glory of sons is their fathers.” (Prov. 17:6). I remember growing up sometimes included brag sessions of guys’ dads. Some were rich. Some had cool jobs. Some, frankly, were bums. Mine was somewhere in the middle. I never lacked a roof, a meal, or clothes. There was even money for piano lessons…until I decided at […]
Sunday Was Easter I am still basking in the glow of the Resurrection celebration. We had two dozen people at my house, eight of them college students who came home from college with my granddaughter. We ate, played outdoor games, had good discussions about living the Christian life. Yesterday, I left the house at 3:15 AM to take them to […]
You in the Word—the Word in You We hear a lot about truth today. There’s your truth, my truth, “truth” about global warming, Dr. Fauci’s truth, which seems dependent on which way the wind blows. How can there be so many different truths? The answer is easy. They’re not all true. Period. Spoiler alert: people lie. But there is one […]
How Wide is the Narrow Way? Scripture tells us there are two ways with two gates, the wide way which many are on and the narrow way which few are on. (Matt. 7:13,14) Are there few because the way is narrow and more won’t fit? No. It’s narrow because to walk it, one must come empty-handed, and few are willing […]
The Age of Reason…Is Dead “’Come now and let us reason together’ says the Lord, ‘though your sins are as scarlet they will be as white as snow’” (Isa.1:18). Pride and prejudice are more than a book title by Jane Austen. They are roadblocks to living in harmony with our neighbors. Society has become so polarized by political affiliation and […]