When people’s lives lack enough meaning, purpose, and value, they will invent meaning which generates purpose and then derive their value from there.

No plague has cost the human race more dear.~ Seneca the Younger (Romans Philosopher, 4BC-65AD), De Ira (On Anger) I offer this observation: our world is full of good-hearted people who are pursuing God-honouring goals

Here are some thoughts on how Christ-followers can experience inner peace even when living under unjust, ungodly, or even just unstable political powers. (Not that I'm thinking of any particular nation's political situation at the

Jesus' Parable of the Persistent Widow invites us to have faith and faithfulness in praying and working for justice.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a message from the emergency blogcast system. This is not a test. (I promise to get back to the series I had on the go at

PART 2: What’s the Big Idea? Now I've done it. I've become so excited about researching and writing on this topic that I have to repent of my previous commitment to keep this series to

PART 1: Mercy, Not Sacrifice (An Introduction) Prolegomena: Before we dive into our main topic, here are two caveats... This new miniseries of posts expresses and expands on one sermon at The Meeting House -

Adam and/or Eve are mentioned a handful of times in the New Testament, always with something helpful to teach us. In this post, we'll look at those instances and ask how these references contribute to

One of the things that I love about our church community is how we live out a real-world diversity-in-unity that is summed up in the Greek word HOMOTHUMADON: literally, a raging passion for unity.  (See

I hope you, like me, base your faith on Jesus - not young-earth-creationism or old-earth-evolution or Intelligent-Design or any other origin theory. This disposition allows us to follow the evidence wherever it leads concerning how