Reading Time: 3 minutes I have always loved clouds. As a boy, I remember wishing I could scale the fluffy cliffs of the mighty Cumulus cloud, though I didn’t know its name at the time. Funny how I never really considered what the surface of the cloud would actually feel like beneath my feet….
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even as He gives us all things to enjoy, He means to stimulate our vision of the unseen by them, not obscure our sight.
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Tis the season! It’s the season for many things. Increasingly, it is the season of heightened materialism and over-commercialization. But for Christians, it is the pre-eminent time of the year we remember the first advent of our Lord. We recall in songs and hymns His birth in a manger, His…
Reading Time: 3 minutes How much do you weigh? That’s rhetorical; I don’t really want to know. What I mean is, why do you weigh that much? No, I don’t mean the fast food and donuts, I mean why do we have any weight at all? The simple answer, of course, is that the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat out on my deck reading one quiet summer morning. From the corner of my eye, I caught a Blue Jay flitting between the houses. He had just landed on the gutter of the house behind ours. He stood there for a few moments and then spread his wings…
Reading Time: 4 minutes He was late for his meeting with the Senate. His wife’s troubling dreams through the night had detained him to the point of tardiness. Perhaps it was the light of the full March moon that had kept her awake and prompted her imagination to run wild. Perhaps it was something…
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Hocus Pocus”, “Abracadabra”, “Shazam”, and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!” Even a cursory scan of the top-grossing movies of recent years would reveal that we have a fascination with all things magical, mysterious and supernatural. Why is this? Some would attribute this inclination to an insidious plot of our ancient foe, but I think…
Reading Time: 5 minutes No, this is not an article of the #MeToo Movement. Such a title might well evoke a host of loaded meanings, but no, this article doesn’t really have to do with the masculine gender at all. I use men in the generic and older use of the term, merely meaning…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Look around you now, wherever you are. Take notice of the straight, vertical lines all around you. Have you ever noticed them before – the legs on the table, the straight line of the corners in your room, the lines in the tile, the sides of a picture frame? They’re…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Step outside on a clear evening and ponder with me for a moment that faithful witness of the night, the moon. I have often been struck by the fact that when I read the words of some ancient writer, musing over our nearest celestial neighbor, or see some piece of…
