Now that the holidays are over, we are all entering that season of self-imposed, albeit in some cases short-lived, austerity that we call the making of New Year’s resolutions. I love the heart behind …
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Deus In Hoc Mundo
Spoiler alert: This blog contains mild plot reveals, although all of you have probably seen the new Star Wars movie by now (who are going to see it, anyway) If you think back to your English or …
A Bittersweet Christmas
There’s nothing like Christmas to bring out the kid in us. The anticipation of Christmas Day, of time with family, friends, good food, celebrating the birth of our Savior, sitting around the fire …
Rest in Peace
Peace is another one of those weird words. If you think about it, “peace” is almost always used in conjunction with another word, one that kind of distorts its meaning in the biblical …
Joy
So, I started writing about joy, the second of the great gifts Christ gives us at Christmas. As I’ve been reflecting on it, joy is a pretty complex idea. Most of us probably know that it’s not …
Hope Never Fails
It’s Christmas time again. Many people spend Black Friday getting up at 3 am to go stand in line at the mall for “deals” (standing outside the mall at 3 am waiting to get in does not sound like a …
Thank You Note
Thank you notes are interesting social graces in our society. Many folks these days don’t even take the time to write them, and when they do, they do it via email or quick handwritten note that looks …
Getting Jesus Right
If you’re asked if you love Jesus, I know most of us (those who read this, anyway) would answer, “Yes, of course.” But, who is it we love? If you’re married, imagine that you said to your husband …
A Cross-Shaped Heart
I think when I’m running after work. It’s therapeutic; I leave the day on the road behind me. God often speaks to me while I run (I know some of you are thinking, “He speaks to me, too. He tells me …
The Greater Pleasures
I have my list. If I won the lottery, I have a list of things I’d do with it. I’d probably rent a house in Seaside for a month, so our whole family could see what it was like to live down there for …
Raising Exiles
Barna Group president David Kinnaman recently noted that we live in a complicated, accelerated culture. The culture in which most of us were raised could best be described as a modern day “Jerusalem”- …
Acting Like What We Are- Screwtape version
(Note: During World War II, C.S. Lewis unearthed The Screwtape Letters: notes written by a master demon to his apprentice nephew, in which the former offers advice for tempting human beings under the …
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