Somebody You’re Not
In an April 25, 2022, article, PC Magazine reported that Facebook removed 6.5 billion fake user accounts in 2021 compared to 3.5 billion active users in the same year. Entrepreneur shared that in 2019 one in four people...
A Thought from the 14th Century
Mark Harris writes: A few years ago, a writer came to my attention who introduced me to the notion of three comings of Jesus…the notion coming from the pen of a fourteenth century Flemish writer, John of Ruysbroeck...
Reading on Empty
I was challenged the other day through one of my readings. Stant Litore, in Lives of Unforgetting, writes, following the Pharisees challenge to Jesus about His disciples eating on the Sabbath (Mark 2:23-28), of how they read the...
The Gospel Paradigm: The Challenge to the Church
Paradigm: the general accepted perspective of a particular discipline at any given time. The challenge to the church: the gospel must be the background to all that believers are and do. We must be actively looking...
We Would See Jesus
“And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth...
Lazarus: Reclining in Darkness…and Then in Light
“So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table (emphasis mine)” (John 12:2 ESV) I was struck by this mental picture of Lazarus reclining, knowing...