Posts from February 2017

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law Ambrose Bierce cynically defined love as, “A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”  He goes on from there, but that snippet suffices to “define” what many…

Though many

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. We understand that “church” refers to people and not to any structure (even though we often use language that indicates otherwise).  We realize that “church” is the union of people in a powerful and mysterious way (Paul was fond of…

Bucket List

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” We sometimes hear people speak of what is called their “bucket list.”  A bucket list is effectively a wish list—things that we may want to see or…