BP 153 The Bible tells us that Christians are in the world but not of the world. We have talked about that a bit in several recent posts discussing C.…

BP 152 Is shame a good thing or a bad thing? Charles Spurgeon said that shame is so abhorrent “to man that it is one of the ingredients of hell…

BP 151 I alluded to it in last week’s post about Christians being like amphibians—living both in the water and on land. Christians, who will one day dwell in heaven…

BP 150 C.S. Lewis unforgettably said Christians are like amphibians. Specifically, he said, “Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals…

BP 149 Following are brief admissions of three children who are clothed with an adult on the outside. AMY: I am twenty-three on the outside. I am six on the…

BP 148 In the age before computers, the word “firewall” referred to a literal wall in a building designed to prevent the spread of a fire. Today, of course, we…

BP 147 Sometimes I begin to write a post but back out of it because I do not feel confident about the content. This post fits that category, but I…

BP 146 I believe some people are specially gifted. I’m not referring here to gifts like intelligence, athleticism, musical ability, or even to what some refer to as being an…

BP 145 Darkness, like a dusky ocean, boils over the horizon. Flooding across the blue vault at midday, it swallows up the fiery-orange warrior of the sky as if it…

BP144 I talked to a handful of people who have experienced chest, jaw, and left arm pain. Some of them sought medical help only to be told it was pain…