After rolling around in my head for sometime and coming out in prayers, it occurred to me that the thought of the only One True God, Creator of the Universe, humbling Himself before us, becoming one of us, is certainly one of the hardest points for anyone, esp. unbelievers, to accept. That He would, if [...]

As Grace has posted a quote from Baxter Kruger: “As the light of Jesus shines into our darkness, we will not be yearning to escape the ordinary, we will be stunned and full of wonder at the ordinary presence of the blessed Trinity in our humanity. Heaven is not a bodiless state in an invisible [...]

While both Dave and I love to promote other Christian endeavors, we love to promote Christ above all. So while we have both agreed that Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola’s A Jesus Manifesto that is wandering around the net isn’t the first thing we would put our names on, not at least without clearing some [...]

Cicero once noted, “nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.” ‘Can never be kept up’ indeed. We have seen that first hand. Borrowing [...]

Image via Wikipedia At one Army base, the annual trip to the rifle range had been canceled for the second year in a row, but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One soldier mused, “Does it bother anyone else that the Army doesn’t seem to care how well we can shoot, [...]

Image via Wikipedia This is the title of Richard Lewontin’s review of Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, published in the NY Times in 1997. You can find the whole review here, and I recommend reading it as he says some very interesting things. One comment on the [...]

What is it to be a father? I know nothing of being a mother, of course, but fatherhood, aside from reading Bill Cosby’s excellent advice, what direction do we follow? What is a good role model? Are we to be friends or authoritarians and where lies the acceptable mix of those? Speaking to several friends [...]

“Christian Oneliners.” Enjoy Don’t let your worries get the best of you;Remember, Moses started out as a basket case. ——————– Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited;Until you try to sit in their pews. ——————– Many folks want to serve God…But only as advisers. ——————– It is easier to preach ten sermonsThan it is to [...]

“Autobots, TRANSFORM!”Okay, enough of that. Wait, just one more; “ROLL OUT!”Man, sometime I wonder what it would be like to do an animated movie about Jesus with Peter Cullen doing the voice of Christ… how unbelievably cool would that be? (Well, maybe its just me … but I bet a month’s pay Dave agrees) Anywho, [...]