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Communion Meditation May 2024 For our household, the table is a place not only of food and fellowship, but of constant instruction. We are teaching table manners: pass the food, chew with your mouth closed, say please and thank you, eat what’s on your plate, DON'T THROW THAT, etc… But with kids from 16 months … Continue reading Table Manners
Claudine Gay was only president of Harvard for six months before she had to resign due to charges of plagiarism. One could argue that the politics surrounding her resignation had more to do with her tolerance for antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, but plagiarism was the formal charge. In light of the great anxiety AI is … Continue reading Who Wrote the Sermon That You Will Hear Tomorrow?
First, let me congratulate you on getting married. It really is the thing that grown-ups do. To be a husband or a wife is more than being a “partner”: it’s entering into a covenant relationship whereby you submit your own personal feelings, happiness, and choices to this greater commitment that you have made. And should … Continue reading Should You Write Your Own Wedding Vows?
Easter Communion Meditation 2024 Since we are celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior on this Lord’s Day, it’s safe to assume that our communion meditation will have something to do with resurrection. And you would be right, except that I want us to think about what stayed dead on Sunday morning. That’s right, … Continue reading What Stayed Dead on Sunday Morning
There is only one kind of person that makes an appropriate individual; the rest of us must be formed into societies. But modernity loves the awful individual, who makes the best consumer and the most manageable citizen – especially for overreaching governments. The awful individual is the aspirational persona in the modern world. The awful … Continue reading The Awful Individual
If I asked you when your greatest moment of worship took place, what would your mind run to? Would you think of a particularly powerful moment in a song service when you felt your soul flooded with love for God? That wouldn’t be surprising, since “worship” in the western church is nearly synonymous with music. … Continue reading Your Greatest Moment of Worship
3 Truths to Remember When Troubles Rise
In the past twenty-two years I have really only worked for three companies (besides a blip on the radar) with the largest having around thirty employees. There are, however, at least two companies located in my city that are worth billions. While my employers were carefully scrutinizing the fiscal benefits of adding an employee, these … Continue reading What Your Employer Can’t Afford
Communion Meditation - February 2024 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all … Continue reading The Task Unfinished
When a group of families sued the Classical Christian school that my kids attend, I wrote a rather long post with the goal, not of affirming or denying the charges, but of providing some biblical categories for pursuing justice. Since that time several things have taken place: 1) several families removed their students from enrollment, … Continue reading The Brouhaha, Part II
Nathan Writes 