In my last article on Hebraic context of Scripture, I delved a bit into the concept of the opposite of God being chaos – a lack of order. Building a bit on that, today I would like to touch on the subject of tikkun olam and the Kingdom of God.
The Repair of the World
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Saturday night, after spending some much-needed time in conversation with my wife in the wake of our oldest son leaving for his sophomore year at Purdue, I turned to the Olympics to watch Michael Phelps’ swim into the record books. Sunday morning, though, I heard a good bit of buzz in church about another [...]

Tim Reed of the Owosso Church of Christ has an excellent post today on something I’ve found I struggle with all to many times – learning to pray like a tax collector rather than a pharisee.
How often do I find myself being thankful for my own accomplishments rather than being thankful for God’s?  All too [...]

Here’s a gem from the Obama campaign, which exemplifies the inexperience and naivete which make the “messiah in waiting” so dangerous – Bill Richardson, an Obama mouthpiece, on the crisis in Georgia:
Clinging to the Obama campaign’s talking points like a drunk to a lamppost, Richardson said this crisis proves the wisdom of Obama’s zest for [...]

My wife and I attended the midnight show of The Dark Knight, several weeks ago, and I have to say that Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker still has me a bit perturbed. In discussing the movie with my Christian friends, we’ve all recognized how this particular movie villain seems to be much more [...]

Branching off to a topic I don’t normally cover here, but one I’ve talked about several times recently to friends & family – on the topic of violence.
With our children (2 boys and 2 girls), we’ve set up a few rules when it comes to fighting, which have worked pretty well (apart from siblings, but [...]