some thoughts

A few ramblings from a Saturday morning…
Reality. It seems to me that relativism and existentialism must be byproducts of nihilism. So also is the objection to objective truth-claims. If nothing exists, nothing conclusive can be said about it. And neither can any comparative value judgements be made–since nothing exists, and neither therefore do any criteria […]

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I like tea.
I also like books–especially old books. When I found out there was a place in town that combined these two simple pleasures in life, I decided to drop in for a bit and check out their holdings. On my way up the sidewalk, I noticed the flowery sign out front, which read […]

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Interesting post here, by David T. Koyzis, on the origin of our word ‘Easter’ - and it may not be what you think!

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Instead of worshipping with my regular church family this morning, I went across the street to the Wesleyan church in order to worship with my folks. The pastor said something in passing that struck me as extremely interesting. Quickly mentioning the passage in Revelation when Christ breaks the seven seals and opens the scroll, he […]

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God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. (Acts 2:24, ESV)
Hallelujah! The firstfruits of the New Creation have sprung up! The Kingdom restoration and glorification project, promised in the garden, has begun at long last! No more imagery, no more types and […]

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This being Holy Saturday, I thought this might be worthy of some meditation today:
Easter Sunday in the Christian calendar is the day on which the Resurrection of Jesus from the Crucifixion (on Good Friday) [took place]. The day in between is Holy Saturday, and is also the occasion for a mass specially designed for […]

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…be not contented to have right notions of the love of Christ in your minds, unless you can attain a gracious taste of it in your hearts; no more than you would be to see a feast or banquet richly prepared, and partake of nothing of it unto your refreshment. It is of that nature […]

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Something I think we lost due to the Fall is the capacity to behold Christ in the brightness of his concentrated glory.
But, in the wake of our High Treason, God didn’t drop the eternal sword on mankind. Instead, he made a promise about a coming deliverer, and then graciously dropped a kind of glory-prism into […]

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I read Numbers 14 as part of my morning devotions, and am struck by the idea of the covenant mediator as intercessor before God.
The events of Numbers 14 take place after the Exodus, after the Manna and the waist-high pigeons, immediately after the spies have returned given their bad report of the land of […]

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Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most […]

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