Wedding Hope – An Unspoken Homily. The great love chapter in Scripture, 1 Corinthians 13, ends with the mentioning of the three great virtues in life: Faith, Hope and Love. Those are the Big Three. And the one that always gets lost in the shuffle is the one in the middle: Hope. It is the forgotten …
Wedding Diamonds- Unspoken Homily. Let me tell you a little story. Millions of years ago, a hundred miles underground, there is a lonely piece of carbon, like a piece of charcoal. It was nothing in particular, nothing very special in any way. Just a piece of material buried in the heart of the earth. But then …
Wedding Survival – An Unspoken Homily. What if there was a new Survivor show, in which married couples were all placed on an exotic island and expected to survive. We would all suggest, obviously, they find life’s essentials soon, now that they are in survival mode… those essentials being food, water, shelter and clothing. If you …
Wedding Fundamentals, Practicing Love. (An Unspoken Wedding Homily) Greetings to all you lovers out there. As you know, there are many opportunities to learn love… Family life growing up; school; work; church. But the best way to learn love is through marriage. I played a lot of basketball growing up, and I experienced countless practice sessions …
(50.) Raise the Alarm – Boys in Danger. “It has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, the competitive and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world… and that …
(49.) Social Grace: The Need for Common Courtesy. “There are no ‘ordinary’ people… You have never talked to a mere mortal… It is immortals whom we joke with, marry, snub, and exploit…” (C. S. Lewis). Christian schools are not charm schools. They don’t necessarily worry about proper etiquette. Who cares, really, if you lift your pinky …
Victim or Survivor? It’s human nature to play the victim card. We have all been victims of something in this broken world. We have all suffered, and we all inherited suffering in one way or the other. When we are officially senior citizens, for example, and we seem to discover another malady every other day, …
Identify Your Self. “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27). This is the age of finding one’s identity. It’s the way everyone wants to define themselves. We want to lay claim to who we are at the deepest level. …
Homes in Hell: An Unspoken Wedding Homily. A special welcome to all you guests and especially to you, ___ and ___. Has anyone here read C. S. Lewis’ book “The Screwtape Letters?” The book is a series of conversations between two fallen angels in Hades, and strategies to take to make a person truly fit …
Praying the High Priestly Blessing. “The LORD Yahweh bless you and keep you; The LORD Yahweh make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD Yahweh lift up His face onto you and give you peace.” (Numbers 6:24-26). [Author Note: I imagine that it is acceptable to insert “us” in …
On the Believer as a Little Christ. “Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity). What does it mean to become a “little Christ,” a human version of the divine Messiah? How do we go about becoming little Christs? We certainly …