All Saints Day Text: “These are the one who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Revelation 7:14 The Feast of All Saints goes back to ancient Rome. The Pantheon had been built in the year 27 BC to honor…
I had the opportunity recently to view a work of art that was based on the fascinating Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Pisa (or Pisano?) who was known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian…
Let me illustrate how I see the importance of Christian doctrine. I have two children. One lives in a city a few hundred miles away and the other lives overseas. It occured to me that when I go to visit the child that lives a few hundred miles away I pack very differently than when I go to visit the child…
Why not start with Martin Luther? In his 1518 Heidelberg Theses Luther points out that God’s love is fundamentally different from human love. God’s love does not find its object but creates its object. Human love finds its object, We love people or things because we find in them something loveable, something attractive. God does…
I believe that the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” points more to the power of words than to the weakness of words. After all, the only time we use the phrase is when we are trying to prevent words from hurting us. I believe that…
It works, it really, really works! I was updating my computer when it suddenly froze up. So I wrote the name Tebow on a piece of paper, knelt down and did the Tebow pose and just like that, my computer started working again! As quarterback of the Denver Broncos Tim Tebow has led his team…
Mirror Neurons 