The Suffering Servant
Jesus of Nazareth climbs up the muddy banks of the Jordan river and sets his gaze towards the wasteland. What awaits him are wild beasts, physical and spiritual alike.
Millenia before, the first man and the mother of all living were gifted a luscious paradise to dwell in. In close proximity to their Creator and…
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Fairlight
We were a typical starry-eyed newlywed couple dreaming about the future. In a hazy honeymoon memory, I recall leaning against a hotel balcony alongside my lovely new wife, in the darkness somewhere on the east coast of Florida, discussing baby names. My wife has a different memory; one that apparently got wiped from my internal…
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Recycled Stardust
Last week, I took my family to visit the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum near our nation’s capital. We walked through the huge hangars which are packed with real historical pieces of mankind’s great 20th century invention: air travel and space exploration. They have it all there at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center- From the…
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Do You Feel Small Enough?
Sometimes, when I want to feel smaller than I already do, I walk outside to the night sky and look up. First, my eyes are distracted by the steady-moving unblinking low-orbit satellites that constantly crisscross our modern skies. Yeah, Elon, you’re pretty impressive! Mankind has taken some giant leaps, indeed. But I’m looking for something…
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Of Putt-Putts and Parenting
Growing up on a dairy farm, our first introduction to driving farm equipment was the Ford 860, an iconic little red & white tractor built in the 1950’s. Ours was equipped with a 6-foot box-scraper attached to its rear three-point hitch for the purpose of scraping the barnyard. She went by various names: Pop called…
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The Holy Child
Christ is first revealed to the sleeping world in the form of a newborn baby. This version of Jesus is, by far, the most palatable to the world at large. For it is only the most degraded, demonic dregs of humanity which are not in some way inwardly softened by the sight and sound of…
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Which Jesus do you worship?
Examining the four-phase progressive revelation of the Messiah. There is a figure of a man who stands against the backdrop of human history, a man whose imprint on civilization dwarfs that of any and all emperors, prophets, sages and philosophers. He is the God-Man, in whom all fullness dwells. This man has been given many…
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Young Again 