Reading Time: 4 minutes At the end of each day of creation, our Creator pronounced His work “good;” culminating on the final day with “very good” after the creation of humans (Gen. 1:31). I think we have a tendency to read these words not as any kind of moral declaration but something along the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I recently heard of a study that showed that Blue Collar workers today tend to be more conservative than White Collar workers. I say “today” because it hasn’t always been this way. (I have a theory about why this is, which I’ll share later) It has been suggested that the…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a recent online discussion I was having, the idea of “God is love” came up, with the intention of showing that a particular doctrine I was holding could not be true, because “God is love.” I’m thankful for conversations like these because they cause me to dig into what…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Of all the ways one can suffer from passing sicknesses, like colds and flu with their stuffy noses, headaches, and sore throats, I think none is so awful as a stomach virus. Its fury is usually brief, but the rage with which it refuses to allow anything to stay in…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I would like to use an interesting little phenomenon of light as a springboard illustration for my larger point in this post. I have noticed this aspect of light for many years now, but it just dawned on me recently that it is typical of the sort of things I’m…
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We blossom and flourish as leaves on a tree, and wither and perish, but naught changes Thee.” This line, from one of my favorite hymns, Immortal, Invisible, beautifully contrasts the nature of mankind with the attribute of God theologians refer to as Immutability or the quality of unchangeableness. All of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Which is more important, love, or truth? Well, in a very real sense there can be no division, for God is eternally both truth and love. But forgetting this reality, we are apt to pick sides between the two, and thinking that love must be the kinder of the pair,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes When my children were very small we lived on a farm. It had an old blue farmhouse that overlooked a lovely pond teeming with snapping turtles, fish, and croaking bullfrogs. Winding around the corner of this pond was an old dirt road that the farmer’s noisy tractors would rumble down…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A dusty peddler guides his mule and wagon towards a village in the distance. As he enters it, he sees a group of soldiers huddled around a fire. “Gentlemen, I have items for sale that you can’t afford to be without.” They glance up at the stranger, intrigued by his…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1958, the quirky little party game Mad Libs was introduced to the American public. The premise was simple, each page of the booklet contained a short story in which several words had been removed and replaced with blanks. Beneath the blanks were the type of words, ie, noun, verb,…
