Said the Puritan, Ralph Venning, the truly sinful thing about sin is its utter, unquenchable, and relentless desire to be opposed to God.  What God calls good, sin calls evil.  What God calls wrong, sin calls right.  What God says “do,” sin says “ignore.”  What makes it sin is its intention to allow no harmony,…

Treasured Friends, With the Presidential election now decided, we are likely to hear over the coming weeks and months about the new administration’s “mandate.”  Our system of government affords each presidential administration a certain degree of latitude – a “mandate” – to cast a vision for the nation’s near-term direction and even to institute certain…

Treasured Friends, On All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween) in 1517, when an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” on the door of the local castle in Wittenberg, Germany, he merely hoped for the opportunity to engage in a debate.  What he could not have fathomed was the far reaching revolution that would ensue…