The Rich Young Man
Luke sadly sat down on the richly embroidered couch. A beautiful Greek nymph, purchased in faraway Corinth, stared at him with blank marble eyes. He picked up a scroll lying on an intricately carved…
Tag: Christianity
Dazzling With an Excess of Truth: Finding God In the Abstract
Schopenhauer writes somewhere in The World as Will and Representation that music ought not to represent. It is many years ago that I read this and I do not intend looking it up even if…
Christ Our Light
The church is silent, dark and still, With emptiness that’s soon to fill. The altar is graced with lilies white, A pure and most refreshing sight. – The time has come; we turn to see…
A Desert with Roses: Ten Simple Resolutions to Enrich My Lent
Jesus I will . . . Be ever mindful of God’s love for me, and rejoice in it! I refuse to lose sight of how much God loves me, even with my sins and shortcomings…
Knowledge and Conversion: A Philosophical Comparison
In both gaining knowledge and having a full conversion there are several necessary characteristics that these processes must have. If a person’s conversion or quest for knowledge does not contain these characteristics then neither the…
Dewi Sant: A Poem for St. David’s Day
St. David used his powerWhen his mother was in laborAnd soldiers came to slay herBut hailstorms drove them back But he would not use his powerTo stop the warring SaxonsThat poured across the countryTo plunder…
Sword and Sandal: A Bible Movie Montage
I love classic Bible movies, especially the really epic ones with spectacular venues and pseudo-Shakespearean acting styles. Yes, I know some people complain about the occasionally hammy dialogue or dated connections to post-war America…
How We Begin: The Story of Felix and Adauctus, Martyrs
Around the year 303 AD, under the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the Christian priest Felix was captured and ordered to offer incense to idols of Romans gods. The statues fell shattered at his…
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?: The Tragedy of Depersonalization
“God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God He created him . . . and, behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:27, 30). How many in our culture today truly…
Love is Not an Accident
Love is not an accident Of chemicals that crossed in space It flows from Everlasting Choice And rushes with a Timeless Grace For out of nothing, nothing comes Yet that which fills can never…