What anxiety and care and hard work we put into temporal things – some of which are fine or even noble, some of which are wrong. I am…
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A few years ago I saw a rather remarkable movie. Perhaps it wasn’t the movie alone, but the circumstances and some of the reactions to it that engaged my mind…
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Reading through Song of Solomon we may find ourselves in much the same position as an engineering student reading John Milton. And a frequently blushing engineering student at that. Lovely…
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The phrase came to mind as clear skies and acres of green pecan trees flew past me without cheering me up. It’s an old adage that actually makes some sense.…
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I apologize ahead of time for my next book. I have four toddlers, you see, and a stressful full time job to support them, and more often than not I…
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A passage that stood out in my Bible reading was the account of Christ casting a demon out of a little boy in Mark 9:14-29. There is such heart-tugging…
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Hello persistent and loyal readers! Life has been catching up with me again and I have not been blogging. And for that reason I wrote up a little blurb on…
1 CommentMusings on the attitude our modern age tends to have toward true wonders in life. Reading Thomas Madden’s excellent work on the history of Venice this morning has jogged in…
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