by Ken Sehested | Mar 16, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Scripture has a pronounced bias favoring “light” and opposing “darkness.” But there’s a minority report as well, where the Holy One is encountered in darkness. Through the prophet Isaiah, God proclaims: “I will give you the treasures of darkness … that you may know...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 22, 2020 | Opinion
Most of us have gotten used to a lot of light. Even in what we call darkness, there is usually enough illumination – from street lights sneaking through cracks in the blinds to colorful appliance displays glowing in the home – to find one’s way around the house...
by Brent McDougal | Dec 21, 2017 | Opinion
I’d never experienced total darkness before spending a night in a cave. Fifteen of us, three adults and 12 youth, entered Alabama’s Desoto Caverns in the daylight with headlamps and sleeping bags. After viewing stalactites, stalagmites and strange insects,...
by Michael Cheuk | Jan 30, 2014 | General
A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. January 26, 2014. Matthew 4:12-23 In Farmville, Virginia, Tommy Pairet ran a T-Shirt shop right next to Farmville Baptist, the church I pastored for seven years. In the shop window,...
by Griff Martin | Nov 1, 2013 | Opinion
A Christian funeral can be an act of beauty or a lesson in bad theology. It seems to be at funerals where we offer some of our cheapest theology in an effort to ease some temporary pain. Yet these words often have long lasting and damaging effects in regard to our...
