Psalm 131

1 O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3 O Israel, hope in the…

Origin and Destiny

You may not realize it, but what you think about your origin will affect what you think about your destiny. What you think about your destiny certainly affects your direction. If you think you are something that came from nothing, then quite often you will reason in the same way. Or if you think you…

Apologia RIP-Ravi

Apologia is the Greek word for, you guessed it, apologetics. Apologetics is not so much about apologizing, but it is about the task of making an answer. Peter tells us in his letter (1 Peter 3:15) that we are to be always prepared to give an answer for the hope that lies within us but to…

Logistics and Stones

There was a time when C.S. Lewis’ helpfully pointed out Jesus’ own mental health. He was either a liar, lunatic, or Lord. In other words, Jesus words either have meaning or they don’t, why? Because for his words to have meaning, it meant that he believed–he reinforced the notion of truth and right and wrong….

Upon the Bible can I only claim

I was hoping to mop up all the messiness from the last entry in a self-contained blog. But this problem is so big that it could not all fit in one entry.  I hope I made the case that our current problem is our need to be accepted on both sides of the debate. It…

Do you believe in Magic?

Ronald MacDonald has taken what the Lovin’ Spoonful (1965) has given us and delivered it to us between two hamburger buns. Yes we believe in magic, the world wants to believe, but is that OK with you dear Christian? As I mentioned previously, I read all the Harry Potter books and watched all the movies….

Sex and Violence

Based on a previous post about the comedian and my response to that, I recently had a short discussion with a friend on the merits of Christian’s consumption of entertainment. Specifically, about how our entertainment speaks and how we receive, respond, and even have a voice with it. I had that discussion and while I was still pondering…

With Respect to the Comedian (This is not That)

The timing of this couldn’t be better, or worse depending on how you think about it. The tragedy in France just occurred over a cartoon of Mohamed. Lives lost. This is not that. A Christian will not attack you if you mock Christ. But a Christian may respond, this is that. This was not inspired…