This essay was first published as “Making the Cut (Part One)” in the CGG Weekly of July 19, 2019. “LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?” —Psalm 15:1 Golf is hard. It may seem easy enough to imagine hitting a little, white ball …
This CGG Weekly essay first appeared on October 19, 2012. Before the political left hijacked the term choice, its philosophical meaning was “an individual’s freedom to determine the moral course of his own life.” This is, of course, what theologians and philosophers call “free moral agency” or “free will.” God …
A stroll through just about any cathedral in Europe, not to mention many a church just about anywhere in the world, would bring to the eye the sight of perhaps a handful or even dozens of images of God and Christ, as imagined by painters, glaziers, and sculptors down through …
This essay first saw the light of day on October 29, 2009, as a CGG Weekly essay, “Can the True Church Be Found?” “. . . on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” —Matthew 16:18 Perhaps the most famous …
I wrote this Random Bible Verse comment on July 13, 2013. The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand. —Proverbs 12:7 This proverb stands at the end of a short section, beginning in verse 5, illustrating the progression of the sinful person …
This Random Bible Verse comment was written April 21, 2012. “And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.” —I Kings 11:42 The reign of King Solomon is a rather bittersweet one. Here he was, the wisest man who had ever lived, ruling over a …
I thought I would post this one just for fun. It’s my “review” of Star Wars: Episode III, which I saw during the late spring of 2005. Of course, I had to find some spiritual lessons in it. While on vacation in Southern California with my family, we were able to attend …
