This month, while Chaplain Mike is on sabbatical, Jeff has asked me to provide some Sunday meditations. I find that daunting. I’m not a scholar or a preacher, but I’ll give you the best I have. Ironically, the best I have is other people’s words, but these are words that have taken up residence inContinue reading “The Descent to God”
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Anger At The Poor
So many people these days seem to be angry at poor people. I hear comments by journalists, by so-called pundits, by television and radio talk-show hosts, and by the people who call in on those shows. The poor, according to these professionally angry people, are getting a “free ride;” they’re part of an “all-out warContinue reading “Anger At The Poor”
Lest We Forget
Too many good books go out of print, and too many good writers are forgotten. From time to time we here at InternetMonk need to remember these lost treasures and pass them on to the next generations. With that in mind, I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite writers. I seeContinue reading “Lest We Forget”
Who Are You?
One of the most powerful things a culture does is to form people’s view of who they are. It passes on assumptions about the obvious elements of identity — nationality, gender, age, and class, for example, and what these mean and how people are to act given them. But people absorb from culture something even moreContinue reading “Who Are You?”
The Crossroads
Last month, at Easter, my family and I joined the Catholic Church. Each of us would phrase our reasons for doing so somewhat differently, but here are a few of mine. I offer them not to preach or gloat, just to share a decision faced by quite a few of us in the post-evangelical wilderness.Continue reading “The Crossroads”
A New Missions Field
Have you ever thought you might have a calling to missions? I have a suggestion for you. I won’t try to convince you that this new field is more deserving or better or more desperate than a hundred others. All mission fields are important. People might get competitive about missions, but how can God competeContinue reading “A New Missions Field”
The Resurrection of Hope
Two days ago one of our angora goats had twin kids. It was a cold day, below freezing. The babies were wet and small and frail. We left them alone for a little while, to let the mother take care of them, but when we returned to check on them they were sprawled, limp andContinue reading “The Resurrection of Hope”
Chapter Two: Prayer
Preachers occasionally comment that it is permissible for them to preach “down the road†– to talk about something they haven’t yet seen or exhort their congregation to levels they haven’t yet achieved. When I write about prayer, I’m definitely writing about a “down-the-road†view, not a retrospective of all I’ve achieved myself. That’s beenContinue reading “Chapter Two: Prayer”
Chapter Two Continued: Work
(This is the third in a series of articles on the Christian life. The other two can be found here and here.) There is an old and persistent heresy. It involves separating the earthly from the godly, the material from the spiritual. Gnostics, Cathars, and others have fallen into the error of equating material thingsContinue reading “Chapter Two Continued: Work”
Chapter Two Continued: Humility and Obedience
I promised a follow-up of my article on “Chapter Two of the Christian Life.†In it I talked about the necessity, once grace has begun to work in us, of working ourselves. I listed nine disciplines or areas of growth that I wanted to talk about. My purpose is not to load people up withContinue reading “Chapter Two Continued: Humility and Obedience”
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