The heavens are neither geocentric, nor even heliocentric, but Christocentric. It is the cross and the crucified and risen Jesus who has the whole world, and each of us, in his nail scarred hands.
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05/07/26
Humanity, despite our best efforts, cannot answer the question as to why God allows evil to occur.
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05/06/26
This is an excerpt from the Chapter 7 of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 72-74.
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08/15/18
The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.
08/09/18
It has been three years since Allyson and I honeymooned in New Orleans. We had a great time eating our way through the French Quarter, learning to drive in a city of only ways, and forgetting that real life existed for only a few days.
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08/09/18
The only obedient son is shunned so that the disobedient one may return. Why? Because God loves sinners. He doesn’t leave them alone.
08/07/18
God preaches a concrete word to us in the present tense. We hear the Good News that Jesus is God’s mercy for us.
08/02/18
In the tiny Bible-belt town where I grew up, tragedy brought people together.
07/30/18
Writer’s Block, however, entertains no such fantasies. It goes straight for my ego’s jugular and pounds home the fact that I’m not good enough.
07/24/18
The force of our love is violent. It is love acted out as, “I will love you in a way that’s best for me, and you’ll like it, and celebrate it, and reward me for it.
07/20/18
Where once we confessed reliance only in ourselves and our own power, now we confess reliance on Christ alone. So, for our relationship before God, our confession of faith matters.
07/17/18
I have a confession: I don’t believe the Bible is true because it says it’s true.
07/11/18
No matter how loving we are, we don’t get bonus points with the Almighty for imitating Jesus. We love each other because we recognize that “this is one for whom Jesus died.
07/06/18
The question at hand was quite short, “Who is Jesus Christ?
07/03/18
When we think God is doing something for us here or there or everywhere, we are simply fixing labels and putting value on what we imagine God is doing for us.
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