You can find a lot of free advice out here in the blogosphere. Everybody wants to get something — anything, apparently — that will make their life the way they want it to be. The way they need it to be. The way they long for it to be. Christians have a name for that […]
Why Do Christians Talk So Much about “Blood” and “Spirit”? (The Baptism of the Lord via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 70)
This last Sunday in the Church year was “The Baptism of the Lord.” Jesus went down to the Jordan and had John baptize him. That act kicked off his public ministry. It also convinced Christians that we too should be baptized. As our bodies are washed with water, so God washes away all the guilt that […]
So What’s Up With the New Tag Line?
Since my first foray into the blogosphere my tag line was “trying to catch the view from some big shoulders.” Now it says “Christianity as a second language.” What’s up with that? My core mission is still the same: I’m mining the best of the Christian past to find wisdom for faithful effective discipleship now […]
The Saints; or “What’s a Nice Reformed Boy Like Me Doing on a Topic Like This?” (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 30)
I wonder sometimes whether readers think it is odd that I blog on a classic Reformed text like the Heidelberg Catechism one day and on saints of the Catholic and Orthodox world the next. From Calvin’s time onward, a good deal of Reformed ink has been spilled ridiculing Catholic devotion to the saints. Take my […]
The Holy Name of Jesus (via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 29)
It is January 1, the eighth day of Christmas. I suppose what comes to mind most quickly is the strange gift of “eight maids a milking.” (How on earth were they wrapped?) In the Anglican communion, and in some past periods for the Catholic Church, this is the day to remember “The Holy Name of […]
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