From Vanity Fair, Issue 600, August 2010.  By Mark Summers.

In the body of my mother He named my name.

An excerpt from novel in progress.  Not sure if this will make it.

Cast off the yoke of slavery because we are no longer slaves. We are free according to the promise God made on the day man fell to slavery. Stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of performance because we are not set apart to have cleaner hands; we are set apart for […]

I Have Not Hidden Your Deliverance

Then I said, “Behold, I have come;in the scroll of the book it is written of me:I delight to do Your will, O my God;Your law is within my heart.” I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation;behold, I have not restrained my lips,as you know, O Lord.I have not hidden […]

D.A. Carson on Drifting | Merely Theological

The pursuit of Christ does not end. Ever. D.A. Carson on Drifting | Merely Theological

The heart is “deceitful above all things and desperately sick” (Jer. 17:9). And so it is. It is not the sun or rain or sex or money or power that demand our worship and declare themselves as gods, but the dark alchemy of our heart that distorts creation into deity. Christopher Myers – I recommend that […]

Insurance Clause – Thomas Moor

Yesterday’s link reminded me of a poem.  Click the link above. Insurance Clause – Thomas Moor

Acts of God

By Nick Paumgarten Last month, after a limb fell from an elm tree near the Central Park Zoo, critically injuring a woman and killing her infant daughter, citizens wondered, as citizens will, how such a thing could be allowed to happen. When trees kill, as trees will, you blame it either on the tree pruners […]

36. Son, Son, Son

Son, son, son, I’ve seen your life from beginning, when you blinked to life when that bundle of cells took charge and blinked. Oh, son, son, son, I’ve seen your life in sound like a person… 36. Son, Son, Son