I feel bad when I don't pay attention to the sermon, but sometimes I get distracted. One verse — one phrase, really — from the day's passage set my mind to racing on one of the most important topics in Scripture.
CS Lewis is my favorite Christian author; that doesn't mean I always agree with him. His take on the atonement is absolutely wrong. And totally right.
Today is our 26th anniversary. In these 26 years I've learned many things, among them: you cannot trust my wife with money. If she leaves the house with cash in her pocket, there's a good chance she will end up giving it to someone. And I wouldn't change that for anything.
People have joked, "If St. Paul were still around, we'd be getting a letter." And I wondered what Paul would say in a letter to the church in the US. Then, in my most recent re-read, it occurred to me that one of his canonical letters seems like it was almost written to us.
