Chasing Aslan in the Real World
It has been quite a while since I last posted, and my life has changed quite a bit since the last time you read any of my words on here. At its core my life is still the same (married father of two, Jesus follower, fanatical tea drinker, gentleman adventurer, storyteller) but recently things took... Continue Reading →
(I wrote this with thinking it was my turn to give a meditation at church tonight. Whoops. Like everything I write I feel it is of the moment and so, I grant it to you all who follow me here. Enjoy. Be challenged. Be encouraged. Be about the Good Works He has prepared for you.)... Continue Reading →
I don't often like being "right". Most of the time I find that I am "right" about the evils in the world, the consequences of sinful behavior, and where the bad stuff is happening before it happens. I don't like it when the World proves my discernment correct, which has made me unhappy about being... Continue Reading →
What do we mean by “Evil”? There are some popular thoughts running through modern society, in “polite society” today that nobody is evil. I mean, other than mid-twentieth century Germans and their leaders…and maybe certain Republicans, right? But, nobody is or should be called “Evil”. At heart everyone is good and wants to be good... Continue Reading →
<I was asked to give a meditation, for my son's Trail Life group, on "strength" as it relates to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength..." as well as the commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself" that we find in Mark 12 and Luke 10. It's my first... Continue Reading →
Sometimes we look at the Bible and see something that isn’t there. Our brains are information gathering and pattern recognizing machines par excellence. I say that at the outset here because I’ve noticed something in the narrative with Cain and God’s punishment of him and I’m not sure if it means anything at all. What... Continue Reading →
The murder done and the body presumably in the ground, Cain walks away. I’ve often childishly imagined Cain as sociopath. In my mind he clubbed Abel over the head, and buried him with out a regret, without grief. He was evil and sin incarnate in my little head as I watched a rage faced paper... Continue Reading →
We have no way of knowing how long it was between God’s warning to Adam and the actual eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Eve and then Adam. Similarly, we have now way of knowing the length of time between God’s warning to Cain and the... Continue Reading →
As is usual in the narrative of Genesis, decades and sometimes centuries pass from one sentence to the next. Here in verse two we learn what becomes of Cain and Abel as they mature and grow into their occupations. Abel becomes a shepherd. Cain chooses to continue in the occupation given man in the garden... Continue Reading →
And so, the LORD God drives out the man and installs a pair of Cherubim with flaming swords that turned every which-way to guard the way to the Tree of Life. I’ve been chuckling a little to myself all morning as I’ve imagined this scene given the popular conception of cherubim/cherubs. The image of two... Continue Reading →
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