Heaven
A while back I wrote a post about The Good Place, a comedy about four people in the afterlife. I promised in that post to write a follow-up on the widespread belief that heaven will be boring. Spoiler alert: the characters in The Good Place come to that conclusion...
Taking Proverbial Wisdom With Too Big a Grain of Salt
Together with our church, I am reading through the Proverbs this month. There’s a simple theme - “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” and following God’s wisdom is key to a good outcome in life. For example, this morning in Chapter 10 I read, “ Whoever...
Mentored by the Young!
I have had the privilege recently to travel back to Princeton Reunions! It’s always a great reminder of the “inheritance” I have in “the saints.” Alumni from the Princeton Christian Fellowship have been extended family to us and to our children for decades. In the...
When God’s Law Doesn’t Feel Life Giving
In my last post, I alluded to commands of God which don’t feel life giving. What did I have in mind? I think of anything which denies me something that I want. We don’t need to stretch our imagination very far to come up with many examples. I will give two. The...
Living Happily Under God’s Authority
The Christian God is a God who claims authority over our lives. That’s an unattractive way to start a post, isn’t it? (I will propose that God’s authority brings beauty at the end of this piece!) But really, we see his authority from the opening chapters of the...
The Good Place
Bill and I just finished watching The Good Place, all four seasons. It is a comedy about four humans who die and go to the good place, or so they are told when they arrive. One of them, Eleanor Shellstrop, immediately realizes that she did not deserve to be there,...