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Both Zealous and Jealous “Zeal” is generally regarded as a positive; “jealous,” not so much. But in the Bible, “zealous” and “jealous” are actually quite close to one another. We will look at their positive use. First, we should notice that God describes Himself in the Bible as jealous: Ex. 34:14 — “for you shall […]
continue reading...Mindfulness and Prayerfulness Distinguished Of the many life strategies advocated in print and digitally, one that caught my attention was the recommendation of “mindfulness.” I would like rather to recommend “prayerfulness.” First of all, they are not the same thing. Mindfulness can be practiced by anyone who sets their, well, “mind” to it. What exactly […]
continue reading...Heaven is a World of Love The title of this post is from Jonathan Edwards and the title of one of his essays. It describes a world in which love is pure and unsullied. Heaven is a world of love. We don’t have that now. I would like to address just one aspect of the […]
continue reading...All Paczki; No Ash It was interesting to me that Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday both shared the same day this past week. It seems that valentines won out over ashes. But more importantly is the distinction between “Fat Tuesday” and Ash Wednesday. I don’t think that there is any doubt that there were many, […]
continue reading...Thinking Out Loud Baboons don’t think. They may have excellent instincts, but they don’t reason. It is one of the ways that humans are different. I should say, it is one of the ways that humans should be different. Not all humans think. Many of our responses are more reactions than they are reasoned responses, […]
continue reading...The Christian Economy This article is not about money. It is about “household rules,” which is what the Greek word, transliterated, economia, means in the New Testament. Oh, it might have a bearing on what money is and how it is used. But it is about the way that a family, in this case, the […]
continue reading...Vanity and Vapidity I don’t know if you like words, but you should. Thinking carefully about words can help us see things from a fresh perspective. So let’s start with “vanity.” Ecclesiastes begins “vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” The dictionary gives a 3rd option which fits this passage: “Worthlessness, pointlessness, or futility.” We are […]
continue reading...Why is it that You have Contrived this Deed in your Heart? (Acts 5:4 NAS95) I killed a mouse recently. I named him Ananias. I was pretty sure that he wasn’t working alone, so I re-set the trap for Sapphira. They played dirty in the wrong house. Both are now dead and gone. In the […]
continue reading...By what power, or in what name, have you done this? (Acts 4:7 NAS95) The critical question in the title of this piece refers back to a fascinating story told in Acts 3. The apostles have received power after the Holy Spirit descended upon them. They are preaching in the Temple; many people are believing […]
continue reading...The Un-Spiritual Gift of Destruction We live in the age of take-downs. We like to see the mighty fall. We hear the stories of a giant’s faults, and then we tell them over and over, whether or not the story that we heard was true. We learned this skill, this unspiritual skill, from the media. […]
continue reading...Both Zealous and Jealous “Zeal” is generally regarded as a positive; “jealous,” not so much. But in the Bible, “zealous” and “jealous” are actually quite close to one another. We will look at their positive use. First, we should notice that God describes Himself in the Bible as jealous: Ex. 34:14 — “for you shall […]
We were designed to become like what we worship. What fills our thoughts throughout the day? What do we love or long for? This book is for those who want to become like Christ–for those who want to meditate on his beauty but who need help to do so. In this devotional work, Kris Lundgaard […]