Last December, I had to discipline my four year old son. (I can’t even remember why). I could not have guessed what happened next. He teared up and asked if he would still get Christmas presents. I was shocked. My wife and I *never* leveraged Christmas gifts to get our kids to behave. Why…
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What If a Vacuum Is the After-Effect of Dark Matter?–Cameron Fultz
What follows is a mind-bending post by my friend, Cameron Fultz; it blends scripture and quantum physics. Even if you don’t get physics, you’ll still get Christ in this post 🙂 Cameron is author of The Jesus Pictures and Spiritual Knowledge. Cameron has a deep desire to know Christ by revelation and to be transformed by the seeing…
Filling the Empty Tomb
Chloe Last month, our cat Chloe was diagnosed with feline leukemia. Two days later we had to put her to sleep. She was too weak and debilitated. Six weeks earlier, Chloe had a routine checkup. At that time the vet said she was in great health. Losing her in three days’ time was stunning. Our…
The Tabernacle of Christ (Part 3)
Please read Part 1 and Part 2… More Than Enough “Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: ‘No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.’ And so the people were restrained from bringing more, because what they already had was more than…
The Tabernacle of Christ (Part 2)
In part one, we began comparing the building of Moses’s tabernacle with the body of Christ building itself up in love (Eph. 4:14-16). We will continue this comparison in this post… According to the Pattern Revealed “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all…
The Tabernacle of Christ (Part 1)
(The following is excerpted from my booklet, “The Consummation of All Things in Christ: Ephesians Chapters 1-4“) *** “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and…
A Daunting Love
Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another (1 John 4:10-11). As I read these verses today, I found myself overwhelmed by my…
The Cut Flower of Creation
Photo by Carrie McKamey Recently, a friend asked me to read Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home. In it, the Pope lays out his views “on the environment and human ecology.” A great deal of the discussion centers on human-caused climate change. Pope Francis intricately explores the environmental and social ramifications…
Celebrating “In”-dependence
Sketch by Patrick Murphy With the Fourth of July just past, we have ringing in our ears and independence on our minds. National memory makes independence a chief value for Americans. Our sense of freedom is rooted in each person’s right to live as they see fit. The classic “American Dream” is to achieve…
“Don’t Tread on Me” (Part One)
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” This old saying nails a core human issue (as old sayings often do!) Amidst more fashionable issues like global warming, social justice, and gay marriage, I fear plain ol’ forgiveness is an afterthought. Yet our old saying captures two things about forgiveness: 1) It is fundamentally important; 2)…
The Voice of One 