In This New Year: Mind the Light

Amid all this lived this sturdy little woman, keeping her lamp alight so that New York Harbor might be safe for ships that pass in the night.Obituary, Kate Walker, New York Evening Post, February 5, 1931 In New York Harbor, between Staten Island and the Statue of...

Prayer for Election Day

For my thoughts are not Your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Book of Isaiah 55:8-9 Lord Jesus: We acknowledge you as Sovereign,...
How I Failed a Quiz on Default Behavior

How I Failed a Quiz on Default Behavior

You remember those mornings in high school. Teacher finishes taking roll, stands up, writes on the board: You’ve been listening in class. Sort of. Taking notes. Usually. Doing your homework. Pretty much. Now, you’ll prove it. I was reminded recently of a...
5 Thoughts On Perspective

5 Thoughts On Perspective

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than...