by Brian | Apr 30, 2020 | Events, Humanity
What do you think, everyone—let’s not ever settle in to these screen-mediated pseudo-gatherings as if this arrangement could ever be described as “normal.” Right? God decides what is normal. We should always remember that. So far, it is only...
by Brian | Apr 29, 2020 | Culture
This post might only appeal to those of you who know that Stoicism has enjoyed a little bit of a revival in interest among evangelical Christians in the last few years. It seems that John Calvin had some choice words for the old Greek philosophers in book three of his...
by Brian | Apr 23, 2020 | Meditations
What’s the second commandment? You know it: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth…” No idols. Don’t try to image God. Don’t try to...
by Brian | Apr 15, 2020 | Current Events, Spiritual Life
Why does God make us wait for difficult times to be over? Why does he sometimes delay his solution to the things that are troubling us? I was thinking about this while reading Acts chapter 8 and 9 this morning. Acts 8 describes what must have been a very difficult...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2020 | Spiritual Life
A lot of us find ourselves with extra time right now, and as this time stretches on, with no obvious end in sight, we’re going to find that we need to be alert to the kinds of things that happen in our hearts and minds when we’ve been in quarantine for say, five...
