Several years ago I trained for a marathon. The first time I ran six miles I remember panting and thinking, "How will I ever run 26?" I was spent after my first long day. My legs ached. An hour of running seemed so long. But I kept running. I wasn't very fast. My body creaked and cracked. And I moaned and groaned through the opening weeks. But I kept running. I … [Read more...] about Don’t Stop Now
How to Read a Book Better
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren have done us a tremendous favor in supplying us with several excellent rules for reading. They are as follows: Classify the book according to the kind and subject matter.State what the whole book is about with the upmost brevity.Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you … [Read more...] about How to Read a Book Better
Fallen Angels in Genesis
This post is overdue. I've been meaning to write it. I just haven't. Honestly, it's a strange topic. But here we go... I have changed my understanding of Genesis six and the question of angels having sexual relations with humans. What I Thought The passage in question reads this way: When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to … [Read more...] about Fallen Angels in Genesis
Knowing God Takes Time
"God, however, cannot be downloaded as can the reams of information we have at our fingertips from the Internet. Acquiring information is one thing. Understanding it is another. Learning to become wise by incorporating that information into a framework of understanding, and doing so before God, is yet something else. This, like many other things of value in life, takes time. … [Read more...] about Knowing God Takes Time
The Coolest Bible Ever
I love it when someone rethinks an old convention. Adam Lewis Greene has done that with his new printing of the Bible. The project is called Bibliotheca. And the goal is to produce a Bible that is physically and typographically elegant and beautiful and therefore more enjoyable to read. Check out his pitch video. You will quickly get sucked into the vision for the … [Read more...] about The Coolest Bible Ever