I wrote this essay, “Big-Picture Thinking,” for the CGG Weekly on January 5, 2007. “Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself . . .?” —Numbers 16:9 As we flip our Gregorian …
This essay was published in the CGG Weekly as “Remember the Sabbath Day” on June 18, 2021. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” —Exodus 20:8 The fourth commandment is not only the longest of the Ten Commandments, but it also begins differently from the other nine. The other nine start with …
The following essay was originally published in CGG Weekly on December 18, 2020. The world around us is celebrating what many call Advent, the month-long buildup to Christmas that the more devout among them treat as a period of more intense prayer and fasting. Most nominal Christians do little more during this liturgical …
“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”
~C.H. Spurgeon
