No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 ESV Friends – “What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and…
A tiny little local church in Modena, not even on the tourist sites. Wonderful place for meditation. Only three other people were in the church.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image…
Ceilings dedicated to the women of the Torah. Amazing place here in this little city of Reggio Emilia.
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 ESV Loved – A few years ago I wrote an article about seeking the perfect love. I’m publishing it again with a few additions because I need the reminder. Maybe you do too. The idea of romantic love, invented in the Enlightenment and perpetrated by this culture,…
Two clocks in the Doge Palace in Venice, keeping time for several hundred years. I guess I’m not so old after all.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to…
A jealous and avenging God is the LORD; the LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies. Nahum 1:2 NASB Avenging – Liberal theologians and atheists point to verses like this to draw a hard distinction between the God of the Old Testament and…
Reggio Emilia
So today is my birthday. Unlike last year I will not be on a plane by myself. I will be with my youngest son and my great wife enjoying a glass of red wine in Reggio Emilia. So I thought I would take the day off and savor a slower pace–for at least 1 day….
