“Break up the ground that is fallow within us,
And raise up a crop that fits with Your purpose.
What You have determined should be grown in our lives,
Water it, grow it, and harvest it all.”
21 Prayers, p. 122
“Break up the ground that is fallow within us,
And raise up a crop that fits with Your purpose.
What You have determined should be grown in our lives,
Water it, grow it, and harvest it all.”
21 Prayers, p. 122
“Children’s children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.” Proverbs 17:6 (KJV) Introduction: I almost entitled this "On Growing ...
“I pray that this sin be removed in a way
That honors You deeply and lifts up Your name—
That no false device or evasive charade
Covers and hides what should not be covered.”
21 Prayers, p. 119
Letter to the Editor: Great article, and a great analogy. Thank you for the clear analysis.I read the WSJ article that started (or at least occurred near the beginning of) all this and had ...
“I ask You, my God, to establish Your justice
Throughout our land through grace and more grace.
Restore in Your kindness, the doctrines of grace
To a people now empty, but once overflowing.
And take grace away from a truncated people
That they might then see how empty they are,
That they might then see how ungrateful they were,
That You might forgive and restore them again” ().
21 Prayers, p. 3
Update and correction: I am informed by a reader that James Lindsay has recently repudiated atheism, and is now considering himself an agnostic. That affects my second paragraph, so please factor that ...
Introduction: Sermon Video The philosopher Leibniz put the problem into a nutshell when he asked “why is there something rather than nothing at all?” That is one of the fundamental questions, ...
“As inveterate Pharisees, we always desire
To turn Your Word into something respectable,
Acceptable, tame, and fully domestic.
I pray that today Your Spirit would wield
Your Word in a way as to make us all see
It can never be tamed and never held down.”
21 Prayers, p. 116
Good Friday 2025: Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor and political figure, was no doubt acquainted with palace intrigues, court machinations, and the striving ache that suffuses all of it. It is ...