Years back I studied and taught theology in Germany for a couple of summers. Living among 24 young divinity students, we lived in Wittenberg where in 1517, Martin Luther had begun the Protestant Reformation. Most historians agree that the printing of the Bible was the greatest event of the past thousand years —the birth of […]
The Bent Cross
He was a professor of religion, but he had no faith in God. What he did have was cancer and no hope. I got word through a friend that he’d like to talk to me. So I went to his home. We agreed to discuss God. No holds barred. To wrestle honestly together in conversation […]
Knowing
Alastair Begg wrote, “In our culture, it’s cool to be searching for truth, and very uncool to claim that you’ve found it.” To be found by God, to claim a faith-relationship with Jesus Christ, to say we understand right from wrong, is to come across as proud, bigoted and close-minded in today’s society. Yet I […]
Balance!
BALANCE: WALKING THE TIGHT ROPE OF FAITH! 1 Peter Our text today was written by “The Big Fisherman,” Peter. He was a waterman, a boater, used to casting the net. Since we, too, live by the water’s edge, can’t we relate? Now, a fisherman learns early not to stand up in the boat. A […]
THE ART OF MY LIFE
A few months ago I was nose-length away from a million-dollar masterpiece of impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The work hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. What I saw up close was a confusing array of brush strokes–– slashing brush marks, pixel-like paint dots, blank spaces, and even globby splotches of […]
HOW CAN WE SING THE LORD’S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?
HOW CAN WE SING THE LORD’S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND? Psalm 137 The Book of Daniel The 137th Psalm is an exile poem. It is a lament over Israel’s defeat as a nation and the people’s deportation 500 miles east to Babylon. There they were enslaved. It is in this context that the poet […]
