Source Unkown I think everyone, especially men, who have seen the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King gets excited (and maybe a bit emotional) toward the end of the film when Aragorn stands before the Black Gate of Mordor with a tired but determined army desperate to distract Sauron from what he hopes to be a marauding Frodo and Sam who are heading to Mt Doom to destroy the ring of power and bring peace to all of Middle Earth. As he stands before the gate knowing that he mu

*** As we do every year, we will be breaking from the blog for a month after our April 3 post. Look for more content in May. Three quotes today (all for the same price) based on Romans 12:3-4, “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” In my sermon on this passage (which you can listen to here) I said this,

We return today to C S Lewis, this time from his essay, "God in the Dock." Human beings often struggle with their place in the world. Even Christians, who know that God is the Creator and Sustainer of all that is struggle to submit to him as their Lord. All of us have had moments in which we pull God down to our level, actually below it, then evaluate his actions in order to determine whether or not he is truly acting like God should. The stakes are high. If he is judged wort

We are continuing on our recent theme of offering quotes from valuable Christian works and writers. This one is a bit different, and by that I mean a bit longer and with a bit more commentary. The quote we start with is from Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. “All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two thing

Mental health issues have become part of the zeitgeist of our culture. We are bombarded with labels, diagnoses, and drugs and therapies to respond to them. Sadly too many Christians are too quick to embrace secular culture and secular brain science without filtering what they are being told through the truth of God’s word. Thankfully there are many very good resources from a Reformed perspective which will help us sort out the ever-present mental health obsession of our Weste