Introduction: Now then, it is time for a little retrospective review, a little encouragement, and a little explanation of what we are all in for. November 2020 being all over now, we may therefore ...
The Enneascam
Introduction: There is something deeply alluring about personality tests. On the mild end of the scale, they can be used to heighten self-awareness, which all of us could use a little more of (Rom. ...
Advent and Affliction
Sermon Video Introduction: Over time, holidays take on a certain patina. Long usage and custom make this unavoidable and necessary, but it remains our responsibility not to allow such later accretions ...
Thanksgiving No Matter What
When we render our thanks to God, we are doing three things that need to be emphasized. When we consider that we are offering up our gratitude in a year when the dirty deeds have been abundant, the scoffers ...
Singleness as Affliction
Introduction: For various reasons and by various means, the teaching that singleness "is a gift" has got about in the Christian church. Like many other things that have got about, like your teen-aged ...
Letters About Those Votangelos
Letter to the Editor: My wife forwarded your article today. I thought you were correct in your assessments. Although, when you asked rhetorically if anyone could name an institution which ...
Ecochondriacs [11]
Please note well: If you order this book in hard copy, it is already shipping. Link here. In addition, audio chapters are being recorded and released on the new Canon App. Meeting the Senator : Jill Stevens had gotten a ride to work from Shelly, her next door neighbor, because her new employee (and perhaps …
Joseph and Sarah
In the Scriptures, the pattern of marrying and being given in marriage is a picture of normality. Sometimes it is a picture of normality on the brink of judgment, as when people were doing all their normal things just before Noah’s flood. “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating …
Scorn Proof
Introduction: John Calvin once famously said that the human heart is a factory for the manufacture of idols. And one of the more popular idols among contemporary evangelical leaders today is the idol ...
You Know, Letters
Letter to the Editor: As you continue to become more radicalized, I am more and more horrified that I, at one time, regarded you as an authority whose intellectual honesty could be ...