I’ve always been fascinated by the care and quality that was taken in putting together the Tabernacle of God in the Old Testament. God himself required the finest gems and the most expensive fabrics. The place where people were to go meet God needed to reflect the worth and value of God. Believing this, I’ve […]
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For those of you who don’t know, I’m beginning a Christian History Book Club at Antioch Church. It is for weird people like me who just can’t get enough of history and who don’t like Oprah’s picks. The first book we’ll be reading is called C.S. Lewis in a Time of War, by Justin Phillips.
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I came across a quote today in one of the old papers that I really like. I’m not sure where I read it, but I think it was from Eugene Peterson’s devotional called, Living the Message. Here is what it says… God spoke to Moses in a burning bush because (1) he was alone in
Have you ever been frustrated at something that seems to be all around you that you can’t do anything about? That’s how I feel about fear. You see, I keep running into so many people who are owned by that. What dictates their decisions or course of action is fear. Fear of enemies, fear of
There’s a line I came across recently in a Robert Frost poem which reads, “He was a light to no one but himself.” The phrase is both robust and tragic. I remember hearing a similar saying years ago. It is that many conversations and arguments, unfortunately, add more heat than light. It’s sad. We should
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That’s what she said. I had heard loud thumping in the other room and called to my oldest daughter Mary Joy who simply said, “I’ve been hitting on walls lately. It’s fun!” I bit my lip and smiled. One person’s way of being at home is different than another’s. My daughter’s fun was my frustration.
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Mother Kirk The word for church in Scotland is “Kirk.” I never knew this until I read C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress. It is an allegory and in it Lewis has a character that is a representation of the church named “Mother Kirk.” In naming the church Mother Kirk, Lewis was drawing on the nurturing
Last night I shared a quote from G.K. Chesterton (the late British journalist) in a talk I was giving on community. Chesterton wrote, “The eagle knows no liberty, he only knows loneliness.” The eagle is the symbol of freedom and liberty. It is a truly American symbol. Yet in a country that is struggling with
I once wrote that the subtlest of all sins is ‘unjoy.’ It seems strange at first… how can not being joyful be bad? In order to untangle this we simply need to look at the nature of sin. The first part is obvious: doing things we’re not supposed to do (cheating, lying and stealing etc.).
I can’t remember when I started loving history, but I do remember when I began to love philosophy. I was a senior at Clemson University and somehow found the tape ministry of Ravi Zacharias. His intellectual approach to teaching, preaching, and explaining Christianity really appealed to me — and it wasn’t long till I was
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