“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” -2 Conirnthians 3:16-18 The United States of America is 250 years old today. Happy Independence Day! As Americans, we have much to be thankful for in the freedoms we have. Not least of those is the freedom to worship God without persecution. That is something, even in the world today, that is not guaranteed. Presidents of widely ranging levels of quality come and go, and so far that free

“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.” --George MacDonald Childhood is pretty good. That is, until that awful time comes when you have to leave behind your days of play and go to school. Then you’re trapped in what seem like endless years of rules, homework, other kids sizing you up by the clothes your parents could afford to dress you in, or being reduced to that one moment you disgraced yourself

This blog post was adapted from a devotional and discussion led at our church's men's group monthly coffee shop meeting. If you're a man of the church, you should definitely consider meeting with us, and enjoy the company, coffee, and hashing things out in discussion. If you're a man not-of-this-church, but in the area, you're still welcome to join us. Do the physical acts of kneeling or bowing while praying do anything at all, or are they completely irrelevant to the prayer

Plate from the Treatise on Horology, Louis Moinet, 1848 Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain. Psalm 127:1 What gets called the Age of Enlightenment was a period of drastic change informed by new scientific discoveries and philosophical ideas. It was in this period that Isaac Newton articulated his laws of motion, giving us the means to articulate the motion of objects in mathematic