I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • Life More Abundantly

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on April 10, 2011

    I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. (Jn 10:10b, ESV) As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide... [Read More]

  • Public transportation is good for your health

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 10, 2011

    So, gas is expensive because Gaddafi won’t leave. I think the liberty of the Libyan people is worth it, however, and I generally get annoyed when the bulk of the media coverage is about money paid for fuel rather than lives paid for liberty. But I was listening to NPR yesterday... [Read More]
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  • Single-Issue Politics

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on February 28, 2011

    I have become a single-issue Republican. It turns out I disagree with the party rank and file about every other issue, however. I support the labor movement. I want home schooling to be outlawed. I want my children to learn about evolution and the Big Bang. I want PBS and... [Read More]
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  • No man is indispensable

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on February 4, 2011

    ‎”No man is indispensable.” —French proverb“If I resign today there will be chaos.” —Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak [Read More]

  • What Happened to the Fertile in Fertile Crescent?

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on October 9, 2010

    In ancient times [...] much of the Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean region, including Greece, was covered with forest. The region's transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists. Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or... [Read More]
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  • Pete Enns on the Dark Night of the Soul

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on September 23, 2010

    There is a benefit of doubt. Doubt is a gift of God to move us from trusting ourselves to trusting him.Doubt forces us to examine what we believe about God—and this can be unsettling. What we thought was our “faith in God” sometimes winds up being little more than faith... [Read More]

  • "God Lisps": Calvin on the Incarnational Nature of God’s Word

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on September 23, 2010

    The Anthropomorphites also, who imagined God to be corporeal, because the Scripture frequently ascribes to him a mouth, ears, eyes, hands, and feet, are easily refuted. (For who, even of the meanest capacity, understands not, that God lisps, as it were, with us, just as nurses are accustomed to speak... [Read More]