A Poem for the Triduum Paschal (Great Three Days)[1] Wisdom she shines, but misunderstood. Glorious plans for tomorrow. Impossible dreams come through sorrow. There is no other way. Servant he must not stray. Evil. Foul play. They slay. Three days remain, See Glory...
Lux In Tenebris (Latin: Light in Darkness) began in 2021 to support reformed faith work in Nigeria by facilitating the provision of theological training and financial and material resources to pastors, churches, and laymen. Our goal is to help spread the preaching of...
Why I Interpret John 3:16 as an Invitation Some may not think I’m a Calvinist when it comes to John 3:16. Actually, I’m a John Calvinist when I interpret this verse (double entendre intended). I don’t think the verse (and its larger context) is simply designed to...
I’m not completely sure it’s authentic, but something in my moderately dark sense of humor hopes it is. I’m talking about the photo of the man who got a massive tattoo across his chest, intending to declare to the world: “no regrets” – but accidentally misspelled it...
It can be shocking at times to realize how open and honest the Bible is when it talks to us about the nature of the life of faith. Even when I read the sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ in the gospels, there are times when it’s almost as if He’s putting people off from...
I hate it when film makers take a perfectly excellent book and ruin it by attempting to make a movie out of it. No doubt, each one of us can probably think of a litany of our favorite books that the silver screen has forever tarnished. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is...
We read in Psalm 103:13, “As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.” The Hebrew word means to love deeply, to have tender affection, or to have compassion. This text tells us that God’s attitude toward His children is one of tender...
In 1985 a couple of Moroccan brothers took to the streets and shocked the world with what would become, let’s be honest, the coolest fad known to man. If you had em’, you were him; if you didn’t have em’, you wanted to be him. The success was short-lived, however, as...
Dear Ephesus, you work so hard and wicked people there you barred. Yet you have lost your earlier love, so now repent; love God above. Dear Smyrna, rich, while poor, in pain— fear not to suffer once again. Be faithful, even unto death, and I will give you life...
Teach the Children Graham Nash famously penned the lyric, “Teach your children well.”[1] In those troubled days of the 1960s, a generation after the horrors of WWII and a Great Depression that left their fathers shackled in silence, unable to speak about what they had...