September 24, 2020 In the mid-seventies I was pontificating and prognosticating from my dorm room in Dallas. Hardly anybody these days remembers that my dorm room in Dallas was the nerve center of Intellectual Vitality in the West at that time. At least it was the center of nerve. My audience of one was a […]
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September 24, 2020 The world is not as God made it. In that original Paradise of God called Eden death was an unknown. Universal life proliferated. Every feature of nature–animal, insect, microbe, wind, and weather combined for the comfort and happiness of the first human pair. They were sheltered. When God warned Adam that if
September 24, 2020 One reason we don’t know what to do is because we don’t know who we are. Once we are certain of our identity we can be certain of our calling. First God calls us by name. Then He commissions us. I’m very pleased with the names of my six grandsons. My children
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June 27, 2020 Some bonds are good. Like the ties that bind our hearts in Christian love. Other bonds are hateful. Like those which make up the bondage of slavery. The goal of most everything is to do away with the bad without destroying the good. That’s the art of chemotherapy. And that’s the kind
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June 4, 2020 I became a Christian the summer before my senior year at a large state university. At the time I nursed an irrational fear that I was in danger of intellectual embarrassment if my conversion became too widely known. I write “irrational” for any number of reasons. My university was known more for
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May 29, 2020 The world is not as God made it. In that original Paradise of God death was an alien. Universal life proliferated. Every feature of nature – animal and insect, microbe and mollusk, wind and weather combined for the felicity of the first human pair. They were luxuriantly sheltered. When God warned Adam
April 24, 2020 Nathanael said to Him, “How do you know me?” John 1:48 If I were forced choose but one chapter of the Bible while dispensing with the rest (a bit like choosing only one of my children or grandchildren) I would have to choose John chapter 1. It has everything. John begins with
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April 24, 2020 “…then the Lord put a mark on Cain lest any who found him should attack him.” Genesis 4:15 Recently I wrote about the two houses the Lord mentions at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. The point was that, though the houses had different foundations, they both had to face the same storms. Some
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April 24, 2020 At the end of the Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus tells of two houses built upon different foundations. The point of the story is well known. When the storms come the house built upon the foundation of sand collapses. The house built upon the rock endures. The sure foundation are the words and ways
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April 10, 2020 Let us be done once for all with the miserable canard that the Jews are guilty of the death of Jesus. As if the rest of us Gentiles were not guilty. Christ died for sinners, therefore all sinners are guilty of His death. When John wrote his Gospel, he very often called the cabal
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