Posts from May 2025
SOUND WORDS, JUNE 1, 2025
HAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN? “Now my idea about heaven is …” and then the writer or speaker reveals himself far more than he tells us about heaven. The materialist, sensual, mystical, aesthetic, and surrealist all have a field day with heaven. It is “pie in the sky” to those who ridicule its reality; and an extremely plush “paid vacation” for those who equate “real” with earthly literalism. “Heaven” is a divinely revealed place, state, or condition; and we…
SOUND WORDS, MAY 25, 2025
THE SINFUL MIND (As we are in the U.K. I hope you enjoy these perspectives from The True Light, a bi-monthly paper published during our work with the Old St. congregation in London from 1990-1994). Slow roasting on a spit. Cutting out the tongue. Ripping out the fingernails. Flaying and disemboweling while alive. These were some of the macabre scenes of torture depicted in the London Dungeon, a museum which illustrates man’s inhumanity to man. As I accompanied a friend…
SOUND WORDS, MAY 11, 2025
BEARING HIS CROSS Jesus Christ could not carry his cross in this world His body so weakened by beating that he fell beneath the load So they compelled another to take up the burden It was heavy and rough and I imagine he groaned under the weight Thinking, it is not fair why should I have to bear this cross It was not meant for me But in the end he laid the cross down and rested his weary body…
SOUND WORDS, MAY 4, 2025
FIRST THINGS FIRST: SELF EXAMINATION “First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:1-5). It is always easier to judge others than to examine oneself. It is easy to see the faults and sins of our neighbor, and we are too ready to point them out. We are not nearly as ready to look ourselves and our own flaws. It is like seeing…