Heaven

A while back I wrote a post about The Good Place, a comedy about four people in the afterlife.  I promised in that post to write a follow-up on the widespread belief that heaven will be boring.  Spoiler alert: the characters in The Good Place come to that conclusion...

Mentored by the Young!

I have had the privilege recently to travel back to Princeton Reunions!  It’s always a great reminder of the “inheritance” I have in “the saints.”  Alumni from the Princeton Christian Fellowship have been extended family to us and to our children for decades. In the...

When God’s Law Doesn’t Feel Life Giving

In my last post, I alluded to commands of God which don’t feel life giving.  What did I have in mind?  I think of anything which denies me something that I want.  We don’t need to stretch our imagination very far to come up with many examples.  I will give two. The...

Living Happily Under God’s Authority

The Christian God is a God who claims authority over our lives.  That’s an unattractive way to start a post, isn’t it? (I will propose that God’s authority brings beauty at the end of this piece!) But really, we see his authority from the opening chapters of the...