“I have often felt that the bustle of too active and varied sphere of exertion is adverse to the growth of one’s personal and spiritual Christianity.” Thomas Chalmers
God’s Design
“The first thing to notice in the story of the building ofthe ark is that its plan was not dreamed up by Noah. He was not a boat engineer. Rather, the plan of the ark came from God Himself. It was a specific, propositionalrevelation…
Half-Hearted Ruts
“OurLord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-heartedcreatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy isoffered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in theslum because he c…
Isaiah 54:9-10
“This is like the days of Noah to me,” says the Lord. “As I swore that the waters of Noahshould no more cover the earth, so I have sworn that I will not forever beangry with you, and I will not rebuke you. For the mountains may depart and t…
Epiphany Hymn
Incarnational hope hastens henceon bud, breeze, and blossomgrieving rynds banished in lilacscents.Hark, the Epiphany Hymn ringshastefrom its loveliest biding-place.A lavish breach of winter’s curthard swordan ardent repudiation of death’sdark pallthe o…
The Confessing Church
When the brash socialist agitator, Adolf Hitler first cameto power as the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he was welcomed by most churchmembers and leaders from around the nation. One prominent pastor and theologian leader even said that1933 and H…
Ideological Busybodies
“Of all thetyrannies, a tyranny sincerely expressed for the good of its victims may be themost oppressive. It may be betterto live under robber barons than under omnipotent ideological busybodies.” C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
True Grit
“Courage is nothaving the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have thestrength. Industry anddetermination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many thingsthat they cannot.” TheodoreRoosevelt (1858-1919)
New Year Celebrations
Thecelebration of the New Year did not occur on the first day of January until after theintroduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582—and even then only in France, thenorthern Italian city states, Portugal, and in the Spanish nations of Castileand A…
Thinking About Sanctity of Life Sunday
“The Modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; but their truth is pitiless…
Childermas
Often called Childermas,this day on the Christian calendar has traditionally been celebrated as theFeast of the Holy Innocents. It is a day that solemnizes the slaughter ofthe children of Judea by Herod the Great following the birth of Christ.It …