A blogger's inner musings: _What about reviewing some of the great books I've been reading - Rutherford's Letters, Keller's The Reason of God, Owen on sin,

_To my beloved wife, Miriam. For in you I see_.Our blissful union, What sweet communion! God’s fragrant rose of Sharon to me, My lily in life’s valleys, Your love is

On Saturday, July 26th, I participated in the funeral of George Todd [http://www.fisherfuneralchapel.com/obits/obituaries.php/obitID/5658], a family friend and the father of Angi Hindman, a former member

In the first months of our marriage, Miriam and I signed up to support a child through Compassion International [http://www.compassion.com/default.htm], a ministry that with a few dollars each

Paul Faris, a founding member of the Sycamore congregation, will celebrate his ninety-second birthday next week. As I reflected on Paul's influence on my own life, I wanted to share

In April I had the privilege of sitting in a meeting where Marvin Olasky, editor of WORLD [http://www.worldmag.com/]magazine and author of The Tragedy of American Compassion, met with a

Along with around 300 others including our interns Bill and Jason, I attended the Banner of Truth Conference at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, last week. The Banner [http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/

Goldie and Boldie were goldfish who lived in a fishbowl. They were happy there - for a while anyway - as their bowl was a nice little place for them to dwell. The blue, white

On Friday, May 16th, Sycamore Covenant Academy [http://www.sycamorerpc.org/linkedpages/congregation/sca.html] (SCA) held its annual Silent Auction & Fundraising Banquet. Over eighty students, parents, grandparents and friends gathered for

Etymology is the study of a word's development over time. More technically it is defined by Merriam-Webster [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etymology] to be "the history of

Like the ever-changing weather of Indiana, these past few weeks surrounding Hope for Eternity have been filled with sun and storm, stillness and strong winds. How so? * The intense days of getting

One more reminder of the schedule for Hope for Eternity, which will be held in the sanctuary of Sycamore Reformed Presbyterian Church. 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 23 Hell: Thinking the Unthinkable

Not that I consider my life very dramatic, but last week did have its fill of heart-stopping and heart-wrenching moments: * An IRS audit for my mother's 2006 taxes saying