Who is worthy of our final, absolute allegiance and loyalty? Who is qualified to lead us in and through everything? Who is the master of our lives? No person, no group, no nation or earthly power… only our King. These words are from the late Baptist preacher S. M. Lockridge.
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That’s My King!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Modern Mainstream Journalism
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those occasions where the ability to do the South Asian ‘what to do?’-face comes in handy.
Growing in Faith and Falling in Love
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An easy, intellectually dishonest way to dismiss an argument coming from a believer is that his argument is ‘merely’ based on faith. Sometimes, this flippant rebuttal is aimed at positions whose foundations are in no way theological, and in those instances, it is clear that one is dealing with a narrow mind armed with rhetorical [...]
Husbands, Love Your Wives
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her…” Ephesians 5:25. This kind of love and heroism is humbling and breathtaking. Please keep this young widow and her husband in your prayers. ‘He’s my hero’: Wife talks about moment husband gave his life to save her during tornado.
Nine days to go?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m starting to see a number of those billboards that proclaim the world’s apparent expiration date of May 21st… 2011! Nine days from now! In Matthew 24:36, the Bible suggests that this will be one of the more expensive ventures in embarrassing advertising. Nevertheless, I am grateful to the group that is putting these up [...]
“Follow”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beautiful video from the talented folks at Igniter Media. The Gospel according to Twitter:
A Blessing and a Curse: Embarrassing the Faith after bin Laden’s death
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“It is unusual to celebrate a death, but today Americans and decent people the world over cheer the news that madman, murderer and terrorist Osama Bin Laden is dead … Welcome to hell, bin Laden.” – Former Arkansas Governor and ex-Baptist Minister Mike Huckabee. This sort of comment speaks to a lot of the reaction [...]
A Visit to Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This wonderful piece gave me a lot of hope about the future of the Church in America; it reminded me of the kind of faith and zeal that I saw in a lot of awesome guys towards the end of college, some of whom are now among the men the author writes about at Mount Saint Mary’s [...]
Doubting Easter
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Power, the Glory, the Starkness
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At a Good Friday mass this afternoon, I remembered a scene described in Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh, which I recently finished. One of the themes in the story is the extinction of a deeply flawed and aristocratic Catholic family, the Marchmains, living in England during the interwar period. Recounting the aftermath of the matriarch’s [...]
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