The Nothing, a force of subtle, creeping compromise, tears away at the human soul, eroding our very identity until we are nothing more than a thread of the person we once were. Is there hope against this powerful force?
God KNOWS we are sick with sin. It is a virus his children contracted at the Fall. And although Christ has come to bring life and grace and peace, we still deal with the effects of this disease. Through the power of the Holy Spirit and community of believers we can have victory over areas of great failure and compromise, but sin will remain an unwelcome companion until the day our bodies stop working and life on Earth is complete. This is reality. No amount of mind games or positive thinking can change this. We find peace when we throw ourselves at the foot of the cross.
“How you describe something depends on what your measurement tools are.”
So I’ve been hooked on the Science Channel of the past year or so. Perhaps it’s my affinity for all things Star Trek or a feeble attempt to cover the fact that I never pulled better than a “C” in any college Science course I [...]
I have recently come to the realization that I ran out of dreams to accomplish, new things to chase. While some, like teaching French or working with AIDS orphans from Africa, have been checked off, others have faded as I have grown and matured in my own journey. One of the funnier examples of this [...]
So, after driving up to Southcenter to visit the Apple Store for some good father/son time with Dad, we stopped at Starbucks inside Barnes & Noble in Tukwila. I peeled away to check out what They had to offer in terms of Latin language and grammar books.
For years I’ve thought learning Latin would be about [...]