Pride is the enemy of grace, and prison is the enemy of pride. “How else but through a broken heart,” wrote Oscar Wilde after leaving Reading Gaol, “may Lord Christ enter in?” It is the central paradox of Christianity that fulfillment starts in emptiness, that streams emerge in the desert, that freedom can be found [...]
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“How else but through a broken heart…”
Posted in contemporary culture, Personal growth, tagged Chuck Colson, faith on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stories, Hope, Life, and Children
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, Personal growth, tagged arts-biblical perspective, parenting, Parenting for Joy, Power of Story on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My children are 19, 16, and 12. One is in college, the second considering colleges, and the third looking towards them in the future (he loves the dining hall the best when we visit campuses!). So I think about the future, what they will grow up to be, and what God has for them in [...]
Jeremy Lin the Underdog and You
Posted in contemporary culture, tagged Jeremy Lin, joy, Parenting for Joy on February 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know if you have been following the story of Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks NBA basketball team (it’s been kinda hard to miss it!), but I have been fascinated by it, for a number of different reasons. First, I love basketball, and although I don’t like the NBA all that much [...]
Schettino and Williams, Manhood and Failure
Posted in Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, contemporary culture on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We are all very familiar with the Francesco Schettino after last week’s horrible accident in the Mediterranean Sea. One merely mentions his name and thoughts are recalled in much the same way as when one would mention the name Benedict Arnold. His handling of the crash and it’s aftermath, and the subsequent reflection on his [...]
Presentable Children and Whitewashed Tombs
Posted in Biblical Studies, contemporary culture, Family on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As a Pastor I have at times felt and heard the expectation from others, why aren’t your children more well-behaved, as if a Pastor’s kids should be perfect, all the time. Now people don’t say it in so many words, but there is that pressure to have good, presentable children, as if the standard is [...]
“Father Knows Best” and a greater love
Posted in contemporary culture, Family, Personal growth on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have a couple new TV channels on what I call “free TV” (we don’t have cable or anything like that). These new channels (MeTV and AntennaTV) have old but good TV shows, like the 50′s classic Father Knows Best. Today Robert Young taught me, by example, a little bit that can help us men in [...]
Reflections on Parenting Blindspots
Posted in contemporary culture, Family, tagged blindspots, parenting on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know where your blindspots are, particularly as a parent? Probably not to the extent that you should, that’s why they are called blindspots! Over the next few days I would like to comment on some blindspots mentioned in portions of an article posted on Josh Harris’s blog, an article written by Reb Bradley [...]
Unbroken
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, tagged Hillenbrand, Unbroken, Zamperini on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently a good friend, knowing my love for historical books, especially concerning World War II, let me borrow her copy of Unbroken: A World War II Story or Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. I hadn’t heard of it, but was immediately enthralled by it as I began to read. It is an excellent book about the [...]
Listen to the Preacher!
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, contemporary culture, tagged Ecclesiastes on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. Eccl. 1:12-13 After his opening statement of his [...]
Nothing New Under the Sun
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, contemporary culture, tagged Ecclesiastes on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Eccl. 1:9 We are enamored with newness. Our culture wants “new” things, new iPhones, new iPhone carriers, new news, new ways to communicate new things (facebook and twitter), new things [...]
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