We pour into our churches on Sundays, lock the doors, and sell candy to one another. The sugar high exhilarates but by the parking lot the high subsides to a low and the energy turns to lethargy. What’s worse is that our neighbors watch us come out looking more infirm than when we went in. …
Catching and Casting Light (Part 2) Â
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that …
Catching and Casting Light (Part 1)
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis I once had an old dog that was so blind that she kept bumping into the furniture. It wasn’t that there wasn’t enough light, but she just …
Three Prerequisites to World Peace
I'm reblogging this from over three years ago. It seems to me that Mr. Lewis, who shared the original metaphor during WWII, would be quite disappointed with our progress toward personal, social, or global peace.
Not a hoof!
I was a brand new Christian when I went to Bible College to prepare for a life of service. I hadn’t even read most of the Bible yet but was about as spiritually hungry as a person could be. Almost every class (with the exception of psychology) and nearly every professor (except the English teacher) …
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