Treasured Friends, Recently I found myself reminiscing about an old fishing buddy: we’ll call him “Jim.”  When I met him, Jim had only recently retired from a long career as a high school history teacher.  He’d taught at the same…

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…

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”…