You’d be astonished . . . okay, make that creeped out . . . no, horrified, if you knew how much information is collected about you each day through your digital activities. If you dare to find out, start with this informative article in Quartz Magazine. An excerpt: The task of these profile-mapping algorithms is […]
I’m working from home today and Mrs. H is out of the house, throwing herself headlong into a long list of tasks for me, her work, her family, and for friends. As all who know her will attest, she is a force of nature. Some wonder what her secret is. I know all of her […]
Many believers have misinterpreted Jesus’ words in John 18:36, wherein Jesus tells Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world.” They take this to mean that Jesus’ Kingdom has no earthly manifestation. In other words, that until His physical return, His kingdom remains exclusively spiritual and therefore invisible. The unavoidable implication of this is that the […]
He arose in the dark. Our familiar Easter sunrise services have trained us to associate the resurrection with sunrise. This is because the discovery of the empty tomb by the women occurs around daybreak. All four gospels record their arrival at the tomb at or just before sunrise on the day after the Sabbath. As […]
Mrs. H and I are suffering from Full Heart Syndrome here on this morning after Christmas Day. The last few days have been rich and sweet. In fact, the whole year gifted us with things for which we are profoundly grateful. 2017 was a year of four milestones. April brought our first grandchildren into our […]
Sure, our 64-year-old cease-fire with North Korea may be about to end. And the Kurdish referendum on national independence could be about to draw Turkey, Iraq, and Iran into a full-scale shooting war. Yes, the entire island of Puerto Rico is a desolated wreck of human suffering. And Russia seems to be moving military chess […]
The Savior’s final words from the cross were a prayer of faith: “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Only moments earlier, the witnesses gathered around the dying Prince heard Him shout something else. A single word. The Word-Made-Flesh yells a Greek accounting term . . . tetelestai! Our English Bible translations of John’s gospel render that term […]
Permit me to point something out that isn’t widely understood or acknowledged in our Postmodern, Bizarro-World times. Whereever the gospel of Jesus Christ has spread and taken root, the lot of women has radically improved. Conversely, the places where Christianity is least historically present and welcome . . . these are the most hellish places on our […]
Attention DFW readers, I’m launching a short new Bible study series in our home next week. Beginning next Wednesday night, February 1, and continuing for the next four Wedneday nights, I’ll be teaching a series I’m calling: “Honeycomb Lying on the Ground: The Sweet Reality of Living in Kingdom Grace.” Open to all. 7:00 pm to […]
For the fourth night in a row, noisy throngs of the usual suspects have marched through the streets of Dallas and other urban centers chanting silly chants: “Hands too small! Can’t build a wall!” Of course, we all know and fear the awesome election-voiding, mind-changing power of a wicked burn that rhymes. The marchers in each city are almost […]
