Chesterton on Martyrs and Suicides

“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside of him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end.”
-G.K. Chesterton, [...]

The Brook Cherith

Yesterday I sat under some wonderful teachings from the life of the Old Testament prophet Elijah. I thought that I already knew everything about this biblical character, but God knows better than that. Yesterday we came to I Kings 17:1-7.

[1] Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to [...]

The Sovereignty of God and Prayer

I just found a great article by John Piper on the basic question, “If God has predestined some to be his sons and chosen them before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4,5), then what’s the point in praying for anyone’s conversion?” Have you heard this question before? Piper’s gives a very thorough answer. Click [...]

Tolkien Comments on Modernity

“Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour.”
-J.R.R Tolkien

Exam Update

I mentioned that I was going to take the Principles of Public Speaking and Ethics in America DSST examinations last Wednesday. I took both exams, and as they were paper exams, I will not receive my results for a little while.
I took the public speaking exam first. When I got to the impromptu speech [...]

The Befuddled Bard

Here is a fun poetry project I did four years ago. I was working through Suzanne U. Clark’s poetry textbook called The Roar on the Other Side. My instructions were to flip through the dictionary and pick out words that caught my attention. Next, I was to craft these into a poem. The instructions were [...]