The modern iteration of this ancient holiday is about as romantic as a gun to the head, in which heaps and mounds of guilt are ladled onto the male of the species to purchase expensive gifts for his associate female. This guilt emanates regularly through TV commercials and sitcoms, movies and, I would hazard a …
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January Reflections
People know where we’ve been, and from our tracks they can usually figure out where we’re going. Beyond that, others know how we’ve made the passage. They’ve watched our steps, observed our behavior, and listened to the words that have passed our lips. Like it or not, we leave something behind. What we say to …
December Reflections
Every morning the headlines drive us deeper into an existential funk. It seems as if everyone hates everyone else these days, and it is easy to lose hope.A regular feature of a daily column I read is entitled “Everything Isn’t Awful,” and typically offers a brief video of cute animals doing cute things with other …
November Reflections
Let the world have its sterile, impotent definition of “thanksgiving.” The Christian’s stance is to be utterly different, in that our thanksgiving is to be both spiritual and physical; it is to ignite both praise to God and earthly works in His name; more than simply a verbal expression of gratitude, it is to be …
October Reflections
God the Son is as holy and pure as the Father and the Spirit, yet in that eternal, uncreated Tri-unity He is unique in that He is approachable in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus is God getting His hands dirty. His earthiness did not diminish His deity, nor did His deity dilute the authenticity …
September Reflections
To make contact with God the Father (on a spiritual level), we must reach up, for God has never left His throne in heaven. To make contact with the Holy Spirit, we must reach inward, for though He moves effortlessly between heaven and earth, the Spirit dwells within our grasp in our own, internal God-space. …
August Reflections
Come along with me on a fabled trip to our past. It will be a journey of rediscovery, one in which old familiar sites are revisited, and witnessed as if through new eyes. Welcome on this trip, of course, are those new to faith, new to this life of sanctification through the blood of God’s …
July Reflections
Every one of us is daily deluged by people and things wishing to pull us away from our Lord, and even though we acknowledge His lordship over our lives and His utter possession of everything we are and have, we can still be led astray from time to time. We can temporarily lose our focus …
June Reflections
Mere man will never grasp the true depth of human love without apprehending the staggering intensity and cosmic proportions of the joyful love expressed within the eternal Godhead. This is the rock-solid foundation that undergirds human love, human marriage, the Christian’s love for Christ, the church’s love for Christ, and, above all, Christ’s profound love …
May Reflections
The Christian’s eternal state of glorified perfection is beyond his reach in this temporal life. We are not promised it—oh, that we were!—nor is it expected of us. Only one Man in all of history was perfect during His earthly sojourn. Only He attained the pinnacle—indeed, was born perfect, and that perfection never wavered, even …