Why change the blog name from “Out of Season,” which fits within the normalcy of blog titles to “Beggars Beyond Our Door,” which admittedly sounds a bit archaic? The answers lies, in part, in what a blog title does for me, which is it aspires me to who I want to become. Generally blog titles seem…
Why change the blog name from “Out of Season,” which fits within the normalcy of blog titles to “Beggars Beyond Our Door,” which admittedly sounds a bit archaic? The answers lies, in part, in what a blog title does for me, which is it aspires me to who I want to become. Generally blog titles seem…
I have changed the name of my blog from “Out of Season” to “Beggars Beyond Our Door.” While changing the title of a blog is not a life changing event, this name change comes with many reasons. Perhaps I will post more as to why in the days to follow, but for now I will…
I found this picture in one of the only boxes that survived Katrina. I was looking for my passport. Rachelle, as she is reading this last part, is muttering that she has told me 20 times that we lost the passport in Katrina. Despite all the evidence, I refuse to believe I lost such an…
Romans 6:22-23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. As a child of…
Jeremy Schurke is on a team that runs an orphanage in Haiti. Click here to read his blog. A reminder why we need not be flipant in our attitudes or discussions concerning God and suffering, but why we must absolutelty come to terms with our answer for who God is and why He allows suffering.
Others have made the same strange discovery, that suffering is a gift to be embraced. Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke of his time in prison, with all its pain as gift. “It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually, it was disclosed to me that…
I will never forget hearing the click, click, click of those gates closing behind us. We started walking down a long sidewalk with buildings dispersed to the east and west of the sidewalk. Inmates were huddled in groups. In one group three guys, in other seven guys and others in-between. Each group making way for the guard who led…
Here comes Thanksgiving Day. How are we to be thankful? What should the cause of our thankfulness be? What if you are going through a hard time? Or maybe I should ask “How can we be thankful especially when things go wrong most of the time and seem to only get worse as the days…
I was listening to D.A. Carson lecture on the New Perspective of Paul. I found this following statement in the middle of the lecture to a major criticism of the New Perspective, but also for much of our own bible readings if we are not careful. Since he spoke it and I tried to write…