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September 2024

September 16, 2024
Tristitia is the Latin name for a sin, or a negative spiritual state, that is...

August 2024

August 25, 2024
We are all aware of the fact that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh when...
August 17, 2024
It's a vexed question to be sure, but here's how I have come to envision...

July 2024

July 29, 2024
On the one hand, Jesus tells us to pray that extreme trials and testings will...
July 03, 2024
Anyone who seriously studies the Bible for any length of time comes to a point,...

March 2024

March 11, 2024
It’s the long slog through the desert that is the most depressing and debilitating for...

February 2024

February 21, 2024
Anson:  You do know, my friend, that a defining feature of ancient Canaanite religion was...

January 2024

January 30, 2024
XIV We have strong joy because His joy is stronger And more robust, fuller, heartier...
January 19, 2024
IX   If humanity is the renegade rag-girl in the tale Of all history, then...
January 09, 2024
The Hero is a fitting sobriquet: he does what he Would rather not, by a...
January 03, 2024
I How much terror he must have overcome To climb the tree where Hell awaited...

December 2023

December 11, 2023
Dear Arthur                 17 March   Hope this finds you well.  I know it’s been too...
December 05, 2023
There is one feature of the classic Laurel and Hardy films that I’ve never seen...

November 2023

November 20, 2023
The word enthusiasm has undergone a near total reversal of meaning – or at least...
November 14, 2023
There is a George MacDonald quote making its way around social media these days, from...
November 03, 2023
Now would be an opportune time, I think, to point out a fundamental fact concerning...

October 2023

October 21, 2023
Dearly beloved, let us ponder for a moment the frightening realism of Holy Scripture.  In...
October 03, 2023
Equity in its purest form fulfills all the demands of righteousness (which is the highest...

September 2023

September 25, 2023
It is true that the older one becomes, the truer the great truths of life...
September 18, 2023
It’s the long slog through the desert that is the most depressing and debilitating for...
September 11, 2023
There is a meme currently making its way around social media that sounds appealing –...
September 11, 2023
There is a meme currently making its way around social media that sounds appealing –...
September 04, 2023
Beloved brothers and sisters, let us reflect for a moment on the extraordinary magic and...

August 2023

August 28, 2023
In John 16:33, Jesus tells His followers that “in this world” they will have troubles...
August 21, 2023
“Your ‘if’ is your only peacemaker: much virtue in ‘if’” -- Shakespeare     This...
August 06, 2023
In the second book of Samuel, in chapter 12, we read the story of how...

July 2023

July 31, 2023
Imagine you and a friend are hiking through a large Northern California forest, and the...
July 24, 2023
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that a person who relied entirely on his own spiritual resources,...
July 17, 2023
It doesn’t seem to be true at first glance, but the words provision and providence...
July 10, 2023
One of the earliest of the operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan is The Sorcerer, which...
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