“He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.” Can you hear the tune of it… “This world is not my home; I’m just a-passin’ through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue… and I can’t feel at home in this world […]
Well, that was it. Today I unceremoniously came to the end of a 23 year career of home educating my offspring. We ended with the dissection of a fetal pig. He didn’t get much of a chance at life, but there he, no she, was– perfectly formed from her little piggy snout to the tip […]
A thrilling testimony. A dynamic presentation. A story worth retelling. A book bought, and promoted…by me. And then the quiet comment posted to my book review blog this week: “I think you should read this re: this book: 2Peter2.blogspot.com.” And everything came tumbling down. Once again the church is stung by the moral failure […]
It is the season of dying things…gardens, leaves, mosquitoes…and of funerals. Our ‘small group’ lost a member this week. Funerals have a way of bringing life as we know it to a halt and making us look at the life just beyond this one, the life we have a hard time keeping in view as […]
–The ‘already’s and ‘not yet’s of the Gospel– I read an article this week by Tim Keller [If you haven’t encountered his books, do look up some reviews. He’s a pastor in NYC making inroads for the Gospel in a tough place and doing lots of thinking and writing in the process, books and articles […]