WHAT IS WORLDINESS?
David F. Wells, professor and author wrote, “It is that system of values, in any given age, which has at its center our fallen human […]
January 2022
THE COMING GENERATIONS
“Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark […]
WAS AND IS
In most translations of the New Testament we get a similar text as this one from the Revised Standard Version of the Gospel of John […]
COURAGEOUS HOSPITALITY
“In any group mediation process there’s always a point where someone in the room — with courage, with worry, with anxiety — names something they’ve […]
SMOOTH HANDS
I’m on my fifth or sixth year of smooth hands. I do not remember in my life when my hands were completely smooth. By that […]
TWO-LEGGED ANIMALS
There is a Latin phrase (ani-mac bi-pes im-plu-me), which means a two-legged animal without feathers (i.e. the human race). This is what separates us from […]
READY FOR A FIGHT
Military strategist Sun Tzu (544 BC- 496 BC) on preparation: “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, […]
THE KINGDOM AND THE CHURCH
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) Methodist missionary wrote, “The Kingdom of the Church must bend the knee to the Kingdom of God. Just as we want […]
PRAY TO GOD FOR GLADNESS
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) wrote, “My friends, pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of […]
NOTHING AND SOMETHING
One fourth of nothing is nothing.Half of nothing is nothing.Three fourths of nothing is nothing.Nothing of nothing is nothing.Nothing is nothing. One fourth of something […]