Posts from December 2020

“…This, I think, is my favorite Advent text because I don’t know any other that expresses so clearly the connection between the beginning and the end of Jesus’s earthly life — between the incarnation and crucifixion….”                                                                                        …

“…it seems that the Bible warns of three dangers that might accompany a successful vaccine—and therefore three spiritual warnings. These, I suspect, are not so obvious. They’re certainly not in our newsfeeds….”   3 Dangers of a Successful Vaccine    

A  57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him that Christmas Day.   The True Story of Pain and Hope Behind “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”  

“… But now life is hard because I see that God’s sovereignty may also be inclined towards the things I dread, the things I would not wish for.”   I Fear God, and I’m Afraid of God