History echoes with the solemn significance of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was on this fateful day in 1918 that the Armistice was signed, bringing an end to the Great War, a conflict that ravaged nations and claimed the lives of millions. The biblical reference to the eleventh…
Wrathful God versus Loving God
When I read the Hebrew Scriptures I read about a God who at times is vengeful and willing to punish. Since Jesus showed up, one never reads about a vengeful God in the New Testament until we get to Revelations. We may wonder why bad things happen to good people, but we never think of…
The Days Of Poets — The Lighthouse Which Cannot Be Hidden
“I’ve been privileged to know and befriend some of the world’s most extraordinary poets. Dannye, Anne, and Roger have been crafting beauty from chaos for years. As Maria Popova wisely observed, ‘The chaos of particles that liquefies solids and vaporizes liquids is just the creative force by which the new order of a more stable…
Yeast
Luke 13:20-21 presents a striking image: the Kingdom of God is likened to yeast. At first glance, this comparison might seem odd. How can something as small and insignificant as yeast be compared to the vast and eternal Kingdom of God? Yet, upon closer inspection, the analogy becomes more clear. A single grain of yeast,…
Grief
One-third the country’s in mourning today, one-third is celebrating like they just won the lottery, and then there is the one third who didn’t vote who are just trying to figure out what day it is. It’s like the world’s biggest game of ‘us vs. them,’ and we just got a Texas-sized whooping. But fear…