This short essay is a response to a request from one of my pastors about how music worship might be reformed at our local church. ******************************************************************************* God glorifies himself in the world in two ways. He glorifies himself by his glory being seen [meaning known, understood] and his glory being delighted in. He who sees … Continue reading Music Worship Reformation at Summitview Church
Author: Tim Constant
Little Lumps Of Somethings
Leo Tolstoy is most famous for his door-stopper book War and Peace. Weighing as much as a full-term infant, it represents a daunting challenge to a generation with the attention span of a hummingbird. I'm one to talk - I have never read it myself. And since I have successfully avoided it for the first … Continue reading Little Lumps Of Somethings
Literate As Dogs
My wife found my dog resting his adorable snout on the Bible, sniffing Jeremiah 31:31, where the prophet foretells the New Covenant between God and His people. "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that … Continue reading Literate As Dogs
Running Thoughts #34
The abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word, indeed, finds in it the fertile soil in which to hide and grow and get ready, so much so that the latent potential of the totalitarian poison can be ascertained, as it were, by observing the symptom of the public … Continue reading Running Thoughts #34
Dear Erin
The following are letters written to a fictional character regarding personal tragedy, God's sovereignty, and negotiating the onslaught of questions and doubt that follow in their wake. Though fictional, they are prompted by the daughter of a friend, who is as real as the tragedy she endured. Dear Erin, When we heard of the sudden … Continue reading Dear Erin
Running Thoughts #33
The events that make up the bruta facta of the past do not contain in themselves the type of narrative order and explanations of causality that is essential in a work of history. That is, historical events do not come with tags explaining how they relate to other historicalevents. No, it is the task of … Continue reading Running Thoughts #33
Running Thoughts #32
"If chance be the father of all flesh, disaster is his rainbow in the sky. And when you hear a state of emergency - sniper kills 10, troops on rampage, youths go looting, bomb blasts school - it's but the sound of man worshipping his maker" - Steve Turner
Genealogical Snobbery
Over Christmas, my family read the story of Christ's birth from the book of Luke. We tend to hop back and forth between Luke and Matthew, each account having their own peculiar viewpoint of the nativity tale. Each also has that tedious but necessary genealogical portion that tracks Jesus's ancestry through his earthly father Joseph … Continue reading Genealogical Snobbery
Spirit of Christmas
Nicolas of Myra, a 4th-century Greek bishop, was a very generous man, known for tossing coins to children, miraculous healings, and even saving a man's three daughters from a life of destitution by surreptitiously tossing a sack full of money through their window to pay for their dowries. Later, after he was sainted, St. Nicolas … Continue reading Spirit of Christmas
Running Thoughts #31
To combat socialism [Otto van] Bismarck put through between 1883 and 1889 a program for social security far beyond anything known in other countries. It included compulsory insurance for workers against old age, sickness, accident and incapacity, and though organized by the State it was financed by employers and employees. It cannot be said that … Continue reading Running Thoughts #31
Thought Butter 