RSS FeedA YOUNG MAN’S SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
Whatever your opinion of JD Vance, his spiritual memoir COMMUNION, Finding my Way Back to Faith, is to my mind, an honest and humble description of his personal journey. I read several reviews of the book before I decided to read it. They were universally critical and...
LOVELESS PROPHECY AND FAITH
“If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but I have not love, I am nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:2) Prophecy is one of the highest spiritual gifts. St. Paul says that we are to...
LOVELESS LANGUAGE
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” (1 Corinthians 13:1) What is the characteristic of speech without love? St. Paul confronted groups of people in the church in Corinth who valued...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR?
The word ‘love’ has an elusive quality. It can stand for romance (I love my wife), for passion (I love philosophy and tennis), for friendship (I love particular acquaintances), for desire (I love food or books), for appreciation (I love nature, art and music), for...
LOVE IS BLIND TO DISTINCTIONS
When Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and illustrates it by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan, he is saying that we are to love everybody according to their need. There are no exceptions to this command. In contrast to romantic love or...
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
The Gospels record that Jesus affirmed that the second great commandment is to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is easier said than done. It raises all sorts of questions in our minds. One of them, asked by a lawyer in order to narrow its application was, “Who...
FDR’s PRAYER ON D-DAY
FDR’s Address to the Nation: 82 Years Ago Today “My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It...
SOLID LOVE
To love someone at all times is not easy. To learn to love is a life’s work. It requires everything of us. Love challenges us every day. Sometimes when I walk on the beach I come across a heart scratched in the sand, with the names of two people entwined in it. The...
JOHN STOTT’S VISION OF THE CHURCH
On the 150th anniversary of the dedication of All Souls Church in 1974, John Stott concluded a sermon (with apologies to Martin Luther King, Jr.) with his dream for the future of the church. I have a dream of a church that is a biblical church – which is loyal in...
OUR MODERN CULTURE
There are few books that I agree with 100 percent but this is one. THE DESECRATION OF MAN: HOW THE REJECTION OF GOD DEGRADES OUR HUMANITY by Carl R. Trueman, is a unflinching exposé of our secular society from the perspective of the biblical faith. It confronts the...
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