Monthly Archives: July 2016
We have become pretty innovative engineering the beginning of life but seem quite helpless when it comes to stopping death. Unable to prevent the inevitable, we instead defiantly make sure we die on our own terms. We feel that since we have constructed some creative life on-ramps, we should also be able to exit life’s highway before we come to the end of the road. We then take things into our…..
We are in danger of losing our identities as unique beings created in the image of God. Our culture, fearing divine restrictions on its self-indulgent lifestyle, tries to remove God from the planet, but in the process strips off the very image that makes us human. Fearing religious maximalism, it doesn’t even allow divine minimalism.
The reason…..
I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I … am … a … man.
(Joseph Merrick)
The 1980 film The Elephant Man chronicled the life of Joseph Merrick, a young Englishman who suffered from the severely disfiguring disease neurofibromatosis. He lived his short adult life as the main attraction in a Victorian freak show that traveled throughout Europe. At one point in the film, he tried to escape the show but was found…..
In the beginning, God created … The first words of the Bible reveal a God who is at heart a Creator. He is a painter, potter, and performer. He hovered over His easel, raised His brush, and the dark canvas exploded in a big bang of Technicolor. He took a formless lump of clay, spun it on His orbitary…..
