This is my right, a right given by God, To live a free life, to live in freedom. Talking about freedom, I’m talking about freedom, I will fight for the right to live in freedom. – Paul McCartney, Freedom (2001) The United States is a country built upon concepts of freedoms and rights. The first Continue reading

We love to complain. We want to complain about service being too slow at a restaurant; about the food being too hot or too cold; about seeing the bottom of our coffee cups; about the loudness of the radio. We complain about the person who cut us off in traffic; about construction; about light timings; Continue reading

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in… Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold Continue reading

In Exodus 20, when the Levitical code is given to the children of Israel, God begins the covenant with ten basic commandments that serve as a scaffold upon which the rest of the law would be built. The Ten Commandments open with a warning against worshiping other gods or creating idols. These would be commands Continue reading

We all know the expression, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” It’s not an old expression, dating back to around 1944 when the journal American Speech used the expression, “You can’t judge a book by its binding,” but similar expressions can be found as far back as the first century when Juvenal writes, “Never Continue reading

While doing some studies in Ruth lately, I couldn’t help but wonder what her interaction with Boaz might look like if it happened in 2009 with some modern sensibilities. *** Upon returning to Bethlehem, Naomi and Ruth found a homeless community that welcomed them. It was a shanty town on the edge of the big Continue reading

Earlier in November, writer Ben Casnocha wrote this on his blog: Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. We don’t lie to Google. Period. We type in what we’re thinking — good, bad, and ugly. There’s probably no piece of information that would better show what’s Continue reading

Some days are easier to practice the example and the teachings of Christ than others. 9-11 is not one of those days. In the midst of remembering those who died in the attack on the twin towers, remembering those firemen who put themselves between life and death – sometimes at the cost of their own Continue reading