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I love spell check.  If a word is not spelt (spelled) correctly or is a made-up word, you can just hit “add to dictionary” and voila, a new word is born. Just what is a coronavirusing, social justiceing, God ignoring world?  From a Biblical perspective, it is a world in which every person knows that […]

The term glory is a term rarely used or understood in our modern society. Its dictionary definition is that of effulgence (brightness or outshining of an object such as a star); the weightiness or value of an object, event or person; the measure of someone or something’s greatness, magnificence, beauty and splendor. When we greatly

“O that a new man would rise up within me and conquer the man that I am.”   Author Unknown    The above is a quote I heard or read a number of years ago.  I don’t remember the context in which I heard or read it and have been unable to find it again in any

In my previous two posts I wrote on the beauty and magnificence, the dignity and significance with which God created mankind, male and female, for His glory (Isaiah 43:7); so that the infinite perfections of His being would be seen, known, praised, enjoyed and rejoiced in within man’s relationship with God and one another, with

I have noted in previous posts that the Bible is God’s gracious self-revelation of His infinitely glorious person and purposes in creation.  It is given to us by God to present to our hearts and minds God as the most glorious, most desirable, most excellent, most essential, most valuable being in all the universe –

In my previous post I presented man (mankind) as he sees – defines himself, apart from God, which is as purely a physical being, essentially a cosmic accident, a product of complex impersonal evolutionary processes; what Pastor Brian Borgman colorfully refers to as “sophisticated slime” or “well dressed matter in motion.” As such, man’s significance,

Does your life matter?  Does any life matter?  When I ask this question, I am using the word matter as a verb, to inquire if your life has any intrinsic or inherent significance and importance, any meaning and purpose, any ultimate dignity or value.  If you say yes, my next question of course will be,

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress of our emerging nation, made up of representatives from the then 13 colonies, established a committee of five men to write a Declaration of Independence from British rule.  It listed 27 grievances and our previous attempts to peacefully redress them with Britain. Their grievances were based not

In the Gospel of John, Chapter 1, we read in the opening four verses the following: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him

In the New Testament of the Bible we have Jesus Christ, God the Son, presented as both the revelator (John 18:37) and embodiment (John 14:6) of truth, the truth of God. He graciously takes on the form of a man, so that as a man He can accomplish everything necessary to reconcile men and women