Just before Atonement we heard on the news that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple (the computer company)—the genius behind the Macintosh computer, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad—had died of pancreatic cancer at the fairly …
"The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones." This trite quotation enshrines a falsehood: Goodness does not die. It cannot be drowned in the depths of the ocean or consumed in the fires of a volcano. It …
Probably everyone has heard and used the tired cliché, "He can't see the forest for the trees." The Dictionary of Clichés asserts that some form of this cliché has been making the rounds since at least the …

(9) “ For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language,
That they all may call on the name of the LORD,
To serve Him with one accord.
Acts 2:21 (a quotation of Joel 2:38) foretells that "whoever calls on the name of the L ORD shall be saved." Zephaniah 3:9, though, shows that there is another prerequisite to calling on the name of the Lord: There must be a pure …
As the world continues to reel and lurch, tossed about by strong and conflicting forces, one cannot have a conversation for long before the well-worn topics of leadership and government arise. The man or woman at the helm — whether local, national, or global — is continually watched, praised, and pilloried, depending on a person's assessment of his actions relative to what he would do in his stead. Love it or loathe it, our leadership—those individuals or bodies of men and women who greatly influence what course our life will take—is constantly in our purview. Conversations about …
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