Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily en-snares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”– Hebrews 12:1 Often, when approaching this well-known verse, there is a great deal of […]
And Now Back to the “Grind”
It’s a new year! I’m writing this in December, and nothing official has come across my desk yet, but word is they will call it 2016. And with New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day, we wrap up the “holiday season.” Reminds me of a joke: a man dies and finds himself in hell. He […]
Does the Blood of Christ Cover Us or Cleanse Us?
Well, there’s snow on the ground just in time for me to write my December column! I took a longish drive yesterday and was really struck by how uniformly the snow had covered everything during a good stretch of it. For miles, I couldn’t tell what was under the snow. Concrete? Dirt? Grass? Driveways were […]
This isn’t an astronomy blog, you know
Some of you may have seen my recent Facebook posts about the early morning sky. The planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars moved into a nice conjunction just this morning, and even elusive Mercury is visible (for a few more days, as I write this) just before dawn. Venus and Jupiter, as the 3rd and 4th […]
Don’t Be Limited By A “Defining” Moment
I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite literary passages, but if I share the whole passage, it will eat up too much of my column space, so I will edit it somewhat. It’s from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle” and goes like this: