Glory
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How a Stroke Saved an Ornery Old Farmer
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what… Continue reading
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Final Judgment: A Remarkable Dream
Shortly after I became a Christian, I had a dream so striking it grips me as strongly today as it did then, almost fifty years ago. In a previous post, we saw that virtually all peoples have seen the world haunted by a numinous presence. However, not all people have seen that presence as good.… Continue reading
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Good Friday: Blood and Glory
Today, Good Friday, our thoughts turn to the cross and the utter ugliness contained in this horrific image. How can we possibly meditate upon it at any length? I mean a whole-hearted meditation? It’s too demonic to behold for for very long. Could we look at a “Gerber baby” nailed there, the iron ripping its… Continue reading