This week the tough question is this: Why, if God wanted to make his Name known throughout the world, did God choose to make that Name known only through one people? From a different angle, that tough question looks something like this: Why does the Gentile mission, to use this expression for what happens in the Acts of the Apostles, not become fully operative for at least 2500 years from the time of Abraham? These are the questions that Chris... Read more
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“I know a man in Christ,” Paul says in 2 Cor 12:2, “who who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.”... Read more
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Many of you know one of our commenters is “Alice.” Well, Alice was a student of mine; she wrote recently to say she and her husband Chuck were coming to Chicago; they invited Kris and me down to the City; we said, “Let’s eat at the Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder.” Wow, it was great to see Alice after 15+ years and to meet Chuck and we had a great time catching up and chatting … and the pizza was... Read more
Last Saturday morning I opened up the Dell computer our school provides and it wouldn’t turn on, and hasn’t since that day. Well, that’s fine — as I’m a Mac man — except that my daily mail and internet routines were all set up on that computer. So, here goes for another version of our Weekly Meanderings. |inline Read more
Last Saturday morning I opened up the Dell computer our school provides and it wouldn’t turn on, and hasn’t since that day. Well, that’s fine — as I’m a Mac man — except that my daily mail and internet routines were all set up on that computer. So, here goes for another version of our Weekly Meanderings. |inline Read more
One of our favorite singers at Willow, Annie Sander, now has a new album: Brighter Day. Read more
Chapter four of Alan Jacobs’ book Original Sin wandered for me, and it didn’t wander in the directions I wanted it to so I found myself saying, “Why go there?” The images of the chapter, however, are captivating. It’s a chp that gets its bearings, if it has any, from the Feast of All Souls. |inline Read more
I’ve been to one Olympics. The last night of Track and Field in Atlanta. We are a sports family and we have always watched the Olympics, especially Track and Field, gymnastics and swimming in the summer Olympics. (I will admit I did some of the track events when I was younger. My father was a high school Track and Field coach.) The Olympics is one event where we willingly drop political differences and play games with one another. (Don’t ask... Read more
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