Winging It

We're in the process of moving to our new home ... which doesn't have internet thanks to the lovely "service industry" of ...

Jesus told the famous “Parable of the Sower” (Mark 4:1–20). He used the familiar imagery of a farmer scattering seed to illustrate the procl...

It’s embarrassing. I heard this joke in junior high. The fact that I can still recite it is embarrassing. It’s the kind of joke that should ...

We danced around “tough love” last week and dabbled with the idea that “love isn’t always roses and sweetness,” but let’s look at that. Is t...

A Little Confused Apparently President Trump has rejected Iran’s seven-day cease-fire proposal. Instead, Trump plans to restart bombing af...

No, I’m not addressing the topic of “tough love” as we normally use the phrase. I’m addressing the idea that love isn’t easy. When we look ...

The Beatles said “All you need is love,” and then they broke up. (Larry Norman, Reader’s Digest on the 1972 album Only Visiting This Planet...

Maybe not new, but certainly uncommon. The word is "mondegreen." What is it? A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of ...

The “Theory of Atonement” most referenced in Scripture is the concept we call Penal Substitutionary Atonement. From Old to New Testament, it...

We’ve had some discussion on “prescriptive vs descriptive” and looked at it in a couple of posts. I thought I’d take a topic that often runs...

You remember Dan Cathy, owner of Chick-Fil-A. Back in 2012 he came out strongly against same-sex mirage 1 . The nation was outraged. And the...

No Bias Here A U.N. fact-finding mission determined that the U.S. “committed war crimes” in its war with Iran when a Tomahawk missile stru...

I offered a piece about the concept of “prescriptive vs descriptive” in the Bible. I agree they exist. I agree they can be difficult (at tim...

In comments, Lorna brought up the notion of “prescriptive vs descriptive.” This is in response to the concept and not to anything Lorna sa...

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your ...

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will...

When moral questions remain abstract, people often speak with great certainty. It is easy to denounce a category when the category has no fa...

The classic line from the Cole Porter song is, “What is this thing called love?” Recently the discussion was, “What is this thing called mar...

Good Faith The U.S. sent envoys to Russia to negotiate an end to the war with Ukraine. Putin promised to stop attacks on Kyiv during the v...

Glenn posted a comment on an earlier post of mine ... an update to his link. It brought the post back to mind and I thought it was worth rep...