Kinship Blog

What We Don’t Like to Talk About

I've been kind of obsessed with God's glory the last couple of weeks. Oh, don't get me wrong. That's not an apology. Contemplating God's glory is a good, good place to be. It's also kind of scary. That's…

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To the Praise of His Glory

Last week, I wrote about the smoldering, smoking, mountain-shaking, fiery glory of God and I found a pretty powerful picture to go with it. This week, I cannot get the phrase, "to the praise of His Glory" out of my…

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The Glory

John 17:22 reads, “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one." In context, this is part of a prayer Jesus prayed over His disciples immediately after The Last Supper and…

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The Question of Evil

There's an old argument among atheists that because evil exists, there can be no all-loving, omnipotent God because such a God would not allow evil to exist. Just recently, I saw an atheist posit online that even one…

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John the Feral

I recently participated in a Bible study of the first eight verses of the Book of Mark. (We will eventually study the entire book.) Mark begins his Gospel, not with the birth or the genealogy of Jesus, not with the creation…

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8,700 Pounds of Grace and Mercy

Once upon a time (last Saturday, to be specific) after the latest, great, howling blizzard had dumped a foot of fresh snow on my half-mile driveway and the afternoon temperature was a balmy six degrees Fahrenheit, I managed to…