“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

98 Oh sing to the Lord a new song,    for he has done marvelous things!His right hand and his holy arm    have worked salvation for him.2 The Lord has made known his salvation;    he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.3 He has remembered...
Didactic Mind, Ep 61: One Bright Star to Guide Them

Didactic Mind, Ep 61: One Bright Star to Guide Them

May the peace and blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, brothers and sisters. Today’s podcast – in lieu of a Sunday episode – is all about the miracle of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the meaning and power of that...
Didactic Mind, Ep 61: One Bright Star to Guide Them

Didactic Mind, Ep 60: The Eye of the Storm

This week’s podcast is all about the feeling that many of us have that something really big is coming at us. The past year has been full of immensely difficult challenges, and most of us have felt drained and weakened by the trials that we have had to endure at...
Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Shepherds and the Angels

8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them,...
We shall remain

We shall remain

There is nothing like the rock of honesty and fairness. And when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then, you have a real start.– Attributed as Sen. Barry Goldwater’s advice to his young son, by...
Didactic Mind, Ep 61: One Bright Star to Guide Them

Didactic Mind, Ep 59: Burning Books and Burning Truths

This week’s episode is once again about Islam and Christianity, and the vast contrast between the two on the subject of Scriptural inerrancy. Muslims have long claimed that the New Testament is corrupted and that our Christian revelations are therefore...
Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Law and the Promise

15 To give a human example, brothers:[f] even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to...
Sunday Scripture: Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Sons of Sceva

11 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant...
God plays with loaded dice

God plays with loaded dice

Albert Einstein – equal parts genius and plagiarist – once remarked, in the context of putting down the entire field of quantum physics, that God does not play dice with the Universe. Pretty much all of the information that we have seen over the last 100...
With gratitude and faith

With gratitude and faith

Today is Turkey Day over in the USA, which is where the bulk of my readership comes from. Now, this day is a bit “odd” from a global perspective. Other cultures have similar festivals and traditions, but at very different times during the year, and for...