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“GHOST of the Future!” [Scrooge] exclaimed, “I fear you more than any specter I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I … Continue reading →

Scrooge awoke in his bedchamber in the middle of a snore to find the clock once again at the stroke of one, and thinking he had the upper hand on Ghost number two, he thought he was ready for anything. … Continue reading →

“Marley was dead: to begin with… dead as a door-nail.” So begins the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The success of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge depends on a very dead Jacob Marley in order to introduce the three ghosts … Continue reading →

God became man. When it comes to manmade religion, nothing could be more remotely possible. Who could have thought up this? God became man. It’s preposterous. It’s a scandal if it’s not the truth. That the Son of God would … Continue reading →

Welcome, all Wonders in one sight!     Eternity shut in a span.  Summer to winter, day in night,     Heaven in earth, and God in man.  Great little One! Whose all-embracing birth  Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth. … Continue reading →

One of our readers commented that yesterday’s Catch is going to be helpful in forming his thoughts for a teaching he’s about to do on communion, or the evangelical word for the commemoration of the Last Supper – what Jesus … Continue reading →

I like skin. I like it better than flesh. Flesh is the biblical term that escapes us. We think we know what it means but we have built-in buffers from overuse without knowledge. We nod knowingly, but the power of … Continue reading →