Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Separation

Sin? No one "sins" these days, or has "sin" in them. We have dumped "sin" into the ashcan of obsolete English words. We may possess "weaknesses," and we may "make mistakes" (it amuses me when I hear the popular "I mis-spoke" used seriously in public discourse), but "sin?"– what kind of Neanderthal creature would use such an archaic, judgmental, and demeaning word?

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Two Like Three?

"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."   (Genesis 1:26, NASB)

A first-time reading (or hearing) of this narrative can easily give one pause, and perhaps prompt the unsettling thought– "Did I read that right?

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Dew of Hermon

Inexplicably, a man and a woman find themselves wandering a street in a large city. But for the two, the streets are devoid of all life. No one else walks the sidewalks, no cars patrol the streets, no dogs wander here and there looking for either mates or morsels of food in garbage cans.