Posts from March 2015

At Calvary: Love Reconsidered

Each year Christians celebrate the day of their savior’s execution, and for some peculiar reason they call it “Good” Friday. At the insistence of his own people, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified at Calvary. A casual observation of the event certainly incites pity. The death of an unjust man is always a tragedy. It was not the first of its kind and…

Weak Faith, Strong Branch

Genesis has much to teach us on the nature and content of faith. It’s been said of a person falling off a cliff that what matters is not the degree of faith one has in an extended tree branch to save him, but the strength of the branch. A person’s faith is effectual if God is the object—he is the strong branch,…