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September 15, 2016

Old man Wendell vs. the Feminists

This is not the first time (nor will it probably be the last) that I reprint the writing of Wendell Berry to pass off as ‘my blog.’ As we have discussed marriage as God intends it: this complementary ‘one flesh’ relationship where two individuals come together to create something new and different and greater than […]

September 14, 2016

Small-Town Idols: Apathy

Recently, a conversation on politics with a guy in Starbucks transpired into him complaining about the child support he has to pay for his five kids in Alaska. He ended the conversation by saying, “There’s always something.” What he meant was something along the lines of, “Life is never as you want it to be […]

September 7, 2016

If – Rudyard Kipling

One of my favorite poems – from a son to a father – giving direction on what it looks like to grow into a man.   If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, […]

September 6, 2016

We need Biblical Masculinity

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he […]

August 30, 2016

Small-Town Idols: Family

(This is the second post in a series on the things that those of us in small (ish) towns often are tempted to give God-like significance and worship to. The intro post is here.) To the Christian, family is a great thing and should be one of our highest priorities. We should fight for the health […]

August 18, 2016

Small-Town Idols

I think it’s true that everybody is a worshipper. Everyone sacrifices their time, money, and thoughts towards something. We have functional gods who determine the decisions we make and the direction of our lives. For example, if feeling good about my body is the most important thing in my life, I’ll put money into things […]

August 10, 2016

Honor the Emperor; how far?

The idea of giving honor to the earthly authorities is a touchy one, but is something we will be willing to do if we believe that it is for the best possible outcome. On Sunday I said: I am not calling for Christians to blindly follow and support all of the decisions of the president. […]

August 10, 2016

Is the World getting Better or Worse?

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from […]

August 2, 2016

Being a reject

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. | Matthew 5.11-12 This Sunday we talked about the virtue of rejection. […]

July 26, 2016

Blinding light of holiness

This week we looked at the overwhelming holiness of God. I described it as a blinding light that would blind us if God revealed Himself fully. We never experience God’s holiness in this way, but the Bible gives us a story of someone who did. The prophet Isaiah came face to face with a vision […]

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