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As I approach my 84th birthday I find myself thinking about my past. Recently, when visiting a friend who is older than I he shared his research into his family history. Perhaps it is the characteristic of old age that we look back over the years and are curious about...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
TIMELESS TRUTHS FROM ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
WE HAVE CEASED TO SEE THE PURPOSE, is the title of ten of the essential speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, edited by his son Ignat Solzhenitsyn which has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press. His Nobel Lecture in 1972 focuses on the necessity of...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CROSS
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God…..we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block and foolishness to non-Christians…For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus...
WHAT CAN I LEARN IN THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE?
William Willimon, Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, commented about the message of the Passion Gospel: “In a feel-good, sin-denying, death-avoiding world, this story of evil, of sin, of goodness challenged, of divine love, goes against...
GOD’S NEW SOCIETY
One of my prized possessions is a first edition copy of God’s New Society by John Stott. It is inscribed: “Ted and Antoinette, with love, gratitude and good wishes, John. Christmas 1979” In his introduction he writes: The letter to the Ephesians is a marvelously...
LENT
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 Over the years of my life I have benefitted from the prayers of Eric Milner-White, a distinguished...
CONTEMPORARY FALLACIES
I have recently discovered Roger Scruton’s reflections on the fallacies of modern culture that affect the thinking of those who want to bring about idealistic solutions to all the problems and challenges of humanity. It is entitled, THE USES OF PESSIMISM: AND THE...
HOLY BAPTISM
This morning I was privileged to witness a young man being baptized in the presence of fellow students of his Christian school. Although I have baptized many candidates of all ages over the years I was struck anew by the solemnity and age-old requirements of the...
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Jesus said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34,35) The first and greatest commandment is to love God and the second is to...
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