Archive for December 2008

this morning at our Christmas breakfast, my twelve-year-old nephew asked God’s blessing over our meal. i want to share with everyone his prayer, as he captured in such a special way the meaning of Christmas. “Dear God, thank you for this food. Please bless it to the nourishment of our bodies. Please help us have…

The pendulum swinging to a pluralistic view of religion is already happening in our churches in America. As Albert Mohler brings to our attention in his blog on The Secularization of the Church, liberal theology has (in my words) “taken church out of the church.” His focus is a recent article about religion in Great…

i recall the first time i drank coffee in college. this wasn’t the first time i had ever had coffee, mind you. but it was the first time i had ever had coffee in conjunction with preparing for an exam. this may seem kind of strange to you, since most people know of my coffee…

everyone wants to be first. everyone wants to be the best. it is our naturally tendency to desire this, and most of us think that we have arrived at being the first and best at some point and time in our life. there is a movement, you could call it a campaign, that has just…

filters are used on camera lenses to enhance different colors or to highlight certain features of the picture being taken. the image we see is modified in some way by the filters. in like manner, we view and interact with people through filters created and influenced by our life’s experiences and beliefs. oftentimes, we consider…