Matthew 22:37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Love God and do what you want. You might be familiar with this quote from St. Augustine. At first glance, it may appear Continue Reading…
Philippians 3:13-14 “…forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal….” The atmosphere pulsed with electricity. A sea of white shirts and waving pompoms invited football fans to join the frenzied echo of WE ARE…PENN STATE! The white-out game at Beaver Stadium between Continue Reading…
Matthew 14:8 Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” Injustice isn’t supposed to happen. God never created the world to be rife with it. He loves justice (Isaiah 61:8). All his works are just; not even a trace of Continue Reading…
1 Samuel 26:10 “As surely as the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.” Don’t we all at times have trouble holding situations in life loosely? Speaking as someone who has a Continue Reading…
Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” All things? What about injustice? Temptation? Disappointment? I’ve been struck recently with how often God uses people’s weaknesses to ultimately bring about his purposes. Continue Reading…
Proverbs 22:1 “A good name is more desirable than great riches….” In the months after the Penn State scandal broke in 2011, my estimation of Joe Paterno changed. It went from “admirable” to “heroic.” To me, the combination of an over-reaching press and political correctness gone amuck thrust him Continue Reading…