“Rite – a religious or other solemn ceremony or act.” (Dictionary.com) Art in Bloom is a four-day festival of floral arrangements and fine art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art that features 165 floral designs that interpret works of art from the MIA’s collection. My selected samples below show why Art in Bloom has become…
Gold is mentioned in the Bible more than any other metal. It is mentioned in Genesis 2 in the description of the location of the Garden of Eden. Gold was offered to Jesus as one of the gifts of the Wise Men. Gold led the people of Israel into idolatry on more than one occasion.…
In honor of Earth Day, April 22, I’ve compiled a list of Biblical passages about the earth. The earth is mentioned 20 times in Genesis 1, the first chapter of the Bible. Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over…
In Acts 10 the Apostle Peter says that when Jesus rose from the dead he was not seen by all the people. He was seen only by people who had been chosen by God as witnesses. The Biblical accounts of the resurrection tell us that the very first witnesses of the resurrection were women. It…
For many people mentioned in the Bible there is what the Bible tells us about them and then the legends that are built up around them. This is certainly the case with Joseph of Arimathea, the man who took charge of Jesus’ burial. All four Gospel writers state that Joseph was the one who took…
The story of Jesus cursing the fig tree is a fairly minor event, relatively speaking, compared to the other events of Holy Week, but still it is a significant event in the overall picture of salvation. We read in Mark 11: “When they came from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. And seeing in the distance a…
Today marks the beginning of Holy Week for Christians around the world. In the days to come, most Christians in the United States will attend special worship services to mark the dramatic, compelling events of the week which culminated in our Lord’s death on the cross and resurrection from the dead. As we do so,…
Someone once wisely observed that the phrase life insurance is a bit misleading. He explained that the only thing that life insurance insures is payment of a fixed amount of money at the time of death. Life insurance cannot insure that life will continue for a single moment. The only true life insurance is the…
It is my annual tradition to write a letter to the editor of our local newspaper at the time of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision that ushered in the era of legalized abortion in our country. This year my letter took the form of a tribute to…
What’s the best way to punish evildoers? Make the evildoers experience the wickedness that they had planned to inflict on others, in other words, give them a taste of their own medicine. The book of Psalms has a lot of passages where the psalmist asked God for this very thing to happen. Here are the…
Mirror Neurons 