Monthly Archive: September 2014

For the mystery of the text, and for the history of eyes to see and ears to hear the text, we give you thanks. Our eyes are scaled and our ears are uncircumcised and...

Our long time friend Phil Naessens and I are working on a weekly podcast now. It’s called “Calvin’s Corner” and we’ll be talking about …well, whatever is on our minds. This week it was...

Adrian Peterson has finally been suspended by the Minnesota Vikings with the co-operation of the National Football League. This has been taken as a sign that both are now taking the high moral ground....

1. If you’ve been wanting a way to help the people in crisis in Iraq, here you go; “If you’ve been watching the news coming out of Iraq, and wishing for a way you...

The intrusion of pain, the eruption of anger, the embrace of rage, and then bewilderment and wonderment and awe. Our lives in faith are situated among the poets: The poet talks about, swords to...

It’s all yours today. I’m offline until next week, so there will be no moderation available.

I had just finished up the work on my last message on “The Beatitudes” and I was feeling holy. I would speak of being blessed for being persecuted for righteousness sake and warn of...

Geneva was governed by city councils, not by John Calvin. The councils ran the churches as well, with approval authority over everything from the liturgy to church discipline. The latter was the first bone...

The statement for 2013 can be read here. As noted by others who have read this, the church has to keep close to three million dollars on reserve to satisfy the loan requirements of...

Yesterday Apple launched it’s newest technology, the Apple Watch. It was the headline on every news show and it blew up Twitter and Facebook. Everyone was talking about it. Most of us haven’t seen one...