An Excerpt: I couldn’t resolve the two. Here before me was the sublime home of my faith, the root of my heritage. Here Israel met with her God. Here—and only here—we sacrificed and paid homage to Him. All of this was conducted according to His precise instruction; it was He who created the method and …
a monthly devotional publication
March Reflections
An Excerpt: After the long and often drab months of winter, spring is the time of newness, and explosive growth, when living things change from one day to the next as quickly as a young child changes in the eyes of a doting auntie. Last year’s acorns littering the land sprout and take root, on …
February Reflections
An Excerpt: Just as extremities lose feeling in the bitter winter, we who must deal with the bitter world suffer a diminishing of the senses. But the Spirit can revive those senses, broadening their scope to embrace even things unseen, the things of the spirit, and the things of an unseen God. This is a …
January Reflections
An Excerpt: Light illumines. It shows the way, it heals the melancholy spirit, it brightens the outlook. Light is a positive and powerful force. But light also reveals. Bright sunlight cheers a dark room, but also shows the layer of dust that coats a table, exposes the cobwebs draped in the corner where walls meet …
December Reflections
An excerpt: Pensively the boy began, “At first I thought it was just my cold, and the candlelight inside the sanctuary. Something was different—but I didn’t know what. Then, at the end of the service, we sang a familiar hymn. It’s the chorus I remember—that’s when I knew that something inside me had changed.”“What was …
November Reflections Published
An excerpt: There can be days—if not every day—when even believers justified in Christ can feel too soiled by their ever-present flesh and surroundings to approach a holy God. We dwell in a fallen world, and, over time, we can permit it to get too close. Our God is longsuffering, but He hates hypocrisy and …
October Reflections Published
An excerpt: We are witnesses to two extremes that illustrate the precarious health of the local church today. At one end of the scale is the anemic, dying congregation struggling just to have a nominal quorum each Sunday morning. At the other end of the scale is the “megachurch,” packed to the gills, with thousands …
September Reflections Published
An excerpt: To look out upon a clean, sharply defined world, devoid of smog and muck, the view not sterile but wholesomely unsullied by man—that is the gift of living out away from the city. Here where the immediate neighbors have four legs, there are two bright moments in every year. The first is that …
Publications Archives Complete!
We are pleased to announce that our Archives of periodic publications is now complete. We still have a few bits and bobs to plug in—e.g., In Unison, and miscellaneous booklets—but our periodicals are now complete, from our current Reflections by the Pond to our very first publication, Aspects. All can be found under the Archives …
Archives Begun
We have begun installing our Archives of previous publications (i.e., those other than Reflections by the Pond). The publication that preceded the current Reflections—Listening—has been installed and is now available for viewing/downloading. More will follow, so stay tuned