Theology That Bites Back
The small boy stopped and chunked some dirt clods at the fence post. Ten throws, six hits. Better than yesterday. Dave turned homeward again, pack over his shoulder. Coming around a corner, he saw the house down at the end of the dirt lane, about half a mile away. The road sloped gradually down for …
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True gratitude can bend beneath the weightOf graces given to the undeserving,Men stagger as they come to goodness lateAnd learn to walk, and with no conscious swerving.True gratitude can stand upon the graceThat comes from God and puts conceit well underThe blood that trickled down the wretched faceOf Jesus Christ, who came to put asunderThese …
So here is some festive doggerel I wrote some time ago, and which I periodically post at appropriate times of the year — and now it is the turn of 2022. I think the last time I published this was in 2017. Have a merry Christmas. Comments are open, but only for those of you …
The stump is pulled, and gnarled, twisted, bent, It leans in awkward and in angled ways. Forgotten are the harvests that it sent Into the world to nourish and amaze. I say forgotten but that isn’t right, How could the fruit forget the sap and root? To be enjoyed, to be a sweetened bite Is …
The West has always beckoned us to come,And so we moved, intent to make our way,At first across a gray Atlantic swellThat we might scrabble hard to stay alive.The land was rich but hard, so we grew hard,And like the land grew rich and prosperous,So that we might grow soft again in leisure.A different West …
Please note well: In case you were wondering, even though November is over, I will be publishing the rest of this book here, section by section. But if you can’t wait to see how it ends, you can order this book in hard copy, and the link for that is here. In addition, audio chapters …
Please note well: In case you were wondering, even though November is over, I will be publishing the rest of this book here, section by section. But if you can’t wait to see how it ends, you can order this book in hard copy, and the link for that is here. In addition, audio chapters …
Please note well: In case you were wondering, even though November is over, I will be publishing the rest of this book here, section by section. But if you can’t wait to see how it ends, you can order this book in hard copy, and the link for that is here. In addition, audio chapters …
Please note well: In case you were wondering, even though November is over, I will be publishing the rest of this book here, section by section. But if you can’t wait to see how it ends, you can order this book in hard copy, and the link for that is here. In addition, audio chapters …
