Wrestling with Perfection, III
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt 5:48)
We are wrestling with the question of whether or not this command reaches beyond the issue of salvation and carries any implications for how I live…how I clean my gutters…wash windows…or speak to the young man ringing up my groceries.
From the standpoint of salvation, we […]
Thanksgiving Thoughts & Response to Charley
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My responsibility on Thanksgiving Day is to do battle with a 20-pound turkey. My objective is to get […]
Wrestling with Perfection, II
Yesterday, we concluded three things:
God is perfect; we are not; and the creation is decaying.
Yet, in the midst of this, the Scripture seems to call us to perfection (Gen 17:1, Matt 5:48, 2 Cor 13:11, etc.).
But what does this mean to me, really? In the nitty gritty, nuts & bolts of my […]
Wrestling with Perfection, I
It was almost a month ago when I first threw this issue on the table. In between then and today, I have logged two international trips, two eastern time zone trips, and a trip to College of the Ozarks.
I am looking forward to my first weekend at home in a month.
Now, I am […]
Judging Nova’s “Judgment Day”
It is 4 am and I still can’t sleep. I have been tossing and turning all night. Why? Because I saw an unjust trial last night.
I watched Nova’s “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”.
I am not talking about the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, the subject of Nova’s two-hour docudrama. The real Dover […]


