An editorial writer for the Lewiston Tribune wrote that folks should “quit picking on” me, and I appreciate the sentiment. But this expression of charity was too much for one letter writer, a woman named Joan Opyr, who wrote an indignant response. It turns out that I have been picking on Moscow — for several …
Wahoo From the Yahoos
This falls under the heading of prayer request and thanksgiving. We are now in the week running up to our Trinity Fest, and all the indications show that we are set for a great conference. Registrations have been strong, the scheduled events are much broader and deeper than we used to have at the old …
Flitcraft
Among my odder pursuits, I would have to include my reading through an Anglo/Saxon dictionary (mostly for entertainment). You learn things that way which I cannot imagine learning in any other way. Anyhow, one of the words I recently came across was the Old English word for logic — which is flitcraft. I much prefer …
Important Trinity Fest Announcement
We only have a week before Trinity Fest begins, and we have an important announcement connected with this. Before getting to that, let me encourage those who have not yet registered to go ahead and do so, and to come. This whole event gets more interesting every day. And that leads me to the announcement. …
Water Still Runs Downhill
There have been no postings here for the last week or so because I was off to a family reunion (where we had a wonderful time). We were just outside of Zion National Park in southern Utah, a place of stark and majestic grandeur. At night the sky was so full of stars you could …
Returned Glory
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Father of all, we praise Your mercy for bringing us here yet again. We thank You for all that You are doing, and have done, on behalf of us, Your people. We are called by Your name, and we would ask for …
God in Battles
The Lord Jesus taught us to be confident in God when He said that not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from the will of the Father. God’s sovereignty is not concerned with generalities—for example, He does not look at a battle from a middle distance, determining only the large issues, such as which …
Fighting With the Supper, Not Over It
As we noted last week, there is another complaint that has been brought against us—in our observance of the Lord’s Supper, we serve alcohol to minors. There are many principles involved in all this, but we need to focus on just one of them right now, and bring this wisdom with us as we come …
Hot Providence
Below is a small piece I wrote for a Christ Church cookbook which, Lord wiling, will be out in the near future. Maybe by Trinity Fest. The name of the cookbook will be Hot Providence, and so stay tuned. In this short essay I advance the culinary argument for God’s existence, which Thomas Acquinas somehow …
Infinite Humility
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Father of all mercy, and God of all comfort, we praise You as the God who does not neglect us in our sorrows and troubles. We know that false gods pretend to be above the daily concerns of tiny creatures such as …