There were good years. There were hard ones. There were moments when I was not easy to live with, not easy to follow, not easy to believe in. And yet, somehow, we kept moving forward. Looking back now, here’s the turn I didn’t see coming. I thought I was chasing a platform. God was building... Continue Reading

True godliness isn’t a matter of personality. True godliness turns sinners into saints. Look at any godly saint and you will learn that they weren’t always that way. God grew them, and it took years, decades, for them to become who they are today.   I visited someone I greatly respect, an elderly saint whose... Continue Reading

Physically, Calvin carries needs that make him totally dependent for the most basic things. If someone peeked into our home, they might assume that Calvin is always on the receiving end. In many ways he is. He cannot walk. Darryl has carried him for sixteen years with great joy. He cannot see. He cannot move... Continue Reading

In a world that doesn’t understand intimacy and in a world that would much rather mouth off on social media than actually sit around a dinner table and talk about real things, it takes a certain amount of practice to get comfortable with [it].   Embrace the Awkward Christian hospitality is different from entertainment in... Continue Reading

Evolutionary theories usually assume that all changes involved in mutations, natural selection, and so forth are part of an upward spiral of progress. Such “progress” suggests a goal or a purpose. But this involves an assumption of teleology or design. Design without a designer, like aim without an aimer, begs the question of intelligence.  ... Continue Reading

Modern palliative care furnishes many accounts that sound like the vast traditional literature on last words—a final communication at the point of death. The mind, sensing that the body is failing, rallies briefly for a purpose. Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing... Continue Reading

Getting involved in the lives of caregivers and their loved ones may seem like a sacrifice, but it’s well worth it for everyone involved. If we are convinced that “the body does not consist of one member but of many” (1 Corinthians 12:14), and each is necessary for the building up of the church, we... Continue Reading

Before understanding the human psyche, he could look at those he loved and see beauty and goodness. As Ted looked more closely at these concepts, to see through them to their causes, they began to disappear. They vanished because he could see nothing behind them. There was no soul, God, or universal standards to give... Continue Reading

Alas, the imaginary (but one assumes typical) mid-century, probably-Anglican preacher described by Lewis lacked the Internet, thus he could not build an online platform, but had to content himself with the troublement of his own flock and maybe a local newspaper column. The good old days.   Screwtape describes a contemporary preacher—C.S. Lewis, writing in... Continue Reading

If you are a child of God, he is working to renew you into his image—including the way you think and communicate (Eph. 4:20-24). The more you grow in Christ, the more God, by his grace, will remove sin’s effects on your mind and make your thinking, imagining, and writing more like Christ’s.   Everything... Continue Reading