Vicarious

“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.” John 13:17

When I was a boy, I had a monthly subscription to the magazine, Sports Afield. It was an awesome magazine, full of colorful pictures of wide-eyed, antlered deer in deep woods, huge bass splashing on a line a foot above the rippled surface of a country pond, profiles of tough men telling dangerous hunting stories. I loved their daring journeys through desolate mountain passes. As I read these articles and saw these pictures, I was transformed into a great hunter/fisherman/outdoor expert. I loved it. Among the courageous, I was one of them. This was my personal catelogue of adventure.

There was just one problem: I didn’t actually do any of it. Continue reading “Vicarious” →

Matters of life and death (Part two)

“In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4

Continuing from part one and some ideas around this word, “life,” the scripture record in the New Testament uses many Greek words for the idea of, “life.” For example: Continue reading “Matters of life and death (Part two)” →

Matters of life and death (Part one)

“In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4

Every moment of every day, we are propelled by a silent urging.

Persistent in our minds is the unspoken, prime directive around which we orient our awareness. It is the a priori of our existence, the point of our central orientation, our singular focus. Continue reading “Matters of life and death (Part one)” →