The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have forded it. Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how endless! Methinks I even now eat of Eshcol’s clusters, and sip of the well which is within [...]
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Archive | January, 2010
Throwing the First Amendment under the bus
January 26, 2010
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It’s a happy story with a happy ending. Doctors recommended that Pam Tebow terminate her pregnancy when she contracted an infection on a mission trip to the Philippines. But she carried her son to term. That would be Tim Tebow, the star quarterback for the Florida Gators who led his team to two BCS championships [...]
Read moreWhy are men so angry?
January 25, 2010
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I can count on one hand the number of times I saw him angry in his whole life. When I start counting my own outburst I have to take off my shoes, but I’m not an angry man either. My wife agrees, and she is in the best position to know. Neither are my three sons, for which I’m thankful.
Read moreA reluctant recycler
January 22, 2010
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We recycle at our house. We wash the cans and bottles and remove the labels. We stack the Wall Street Journal by the door and carry out the compost. The “we” here means Katie. I’m extremely reluctant to wash something that was designed to be thrown away, although I will carry things off to the [...]
Read moreWhat Robertson actually said
January 20, 2010
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First of all, let me say I’m not a big fan of Pat Robertson. His theology is a little too experiential for me, and his ego a little too large. I’ve met the man and I have friends who have worked for him. He insists on a level of loyalty I find frightening. And when [...]
Read moreWhat happened in Haiti?
January 18, 2010
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I can only imagine one thing worse than presuming to understand the divine calculus and that would be to discount it altogether.
Read moreLook who’s sorry now
January 14, 2010
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Who’s sorry now? Apparently everybody. Elizabeth Bernstein’s column on relationships in the Wall Street Journal last Tuesday explores the growing tendency to track down people on the web and apologize for something that happened years ago. As she points out, email or Facebook makes us braver and more impulsive. And there are even websites, such [...]
Read moreWhat kind of multifunction printer would Jesus buy?
January 12, 2010
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Ephesian 5 says my job is to love my wife as Christ loved the church, which is a whole lot. And I understand that Christ did this by laying down his life for her. What’s a few hours compared to that? I just don’t understand how it works.
Read moreI gave at the grocery
January 9, 2010
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Giving so your generosity is announced over the loudspeaker, or engraved on the side a building, has long been suspect. And giving out of embarrassment or pressure is equally suspect.
Read moreModesty matters
January 4, 2010
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And the man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed. —Genesis 2:25 In 2000 a young feminist named Wendy Shalit published A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. Why,” asks Shalit, “is sexual modesty so threatening to some that they can only respond to it with charges of abuse or [...]
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