Tag Archives: spiritual warfare

Cain and Abel

So many of the stories in the Book of Genesis leave me wondering. What is wrong, for example, with humanity gaining the knowledge of good and evil?  Isn’t that the very thing that separates us from all of the rest … Continue reading

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Book Review: 12 Rules for Life

  I have just finished reading Jordan Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and I feel like I have been in a fight. But it’s a good fight.  The very kind of fight we long … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson, Eugene Peterson and The Apostle Paul

What kind of book is Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life?   Is it self-help, or is it a book about faith?  Does it prescribe self-reliance or does it point to Christ as the means of salvation – as the … Continue reading

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Night Poem, December 5, 2017

  You never thought you’d see the day On this side of that river When enemies and fears would fade And you would be delivered . But the time of testing now has passed Your faith has become sight And … Continue reading

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Finishing Witness

      An autumn scene at the Pipe Creek Farm in Maryland, once owned by Whittaker Chambers.         I don’t know if I have ever read a longer book in my life.   Witness is over … Continue reading

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The World’s Second-Oldest Faith

    I don’t come to the scriptures as a sophisticate.   I’m a layman.  An interested, believing, and educated layman, yet I know that those learned in the scriptures might often smile as I recount my reactions to the … Continue reading

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