Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins GLORY be to God for dappled things, For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow, For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced, fold, fallow and plough, And all trades, their ...

Back in March 2004 I wrote this when TrueGrit was not at this web address. I was just starting to blog, but I reread it and thought it is still something to think about. The original title was ” Another Question/Would I make a good world?” and the original “Theophilus post” u...

I am taking the liberty to fisk a high profile posting on the cessationist argument… as it was lobbed to the post of Adrian Warnock. I just wanted to …. even though fisking may be frowned upon. This is the post, mostly -skipping over the preamble, answered in a rebuttal manner as is comm...

An idea that has become very important in my thinking lately is Christ as the centerpiece of my goals, actions, and direction. The application of this viewpoint has made it easier to assess priority and look at motivation more honestly.......

An idea that has become very important in my thinking lately is Christ as the centerpiece of my goals, actions, and direction. The application of this viewpoint has made it easier to assess priority and look at motivation more honestly. That is so important in many of the areas of perennial struggle...

Lent will start on Wednesday, the 25th of February in 2009, and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the 11th of April. So what is the significance of that for many of us? Lent is the traditional fasting time that extends from Ash Wednesday through Easter. It is to represent the 40 days Jesus s...

It’s only fair to give Joe his day. He says: I do not think that the various “Warsâ€� on poverty, drugs, terror, etc., have accomplished nothing. What usually happens when the government declares these wars, and then goes on to make its plans in its “war roomâ€�, is that the problem is mad...

I keep thinking that I’ve posted things already, and then it isn’t here. I must be posting in my mind lately. Actually that is how I write many posts: think about them and and construct what I’m going to say, then write everything down quickly (with way too many typos and messed up...

a specific demographic——Generation Y——-hipsters between the ages of 13-35 that are hard to please, hard to understand, and hard to reach -Krista Paul Share This...

No one knows the future. God knows, but He is not telling us everything, just some important things for those who have ears to hear- to use the words of Jesus. I often see the future in terms of a foggy landscape, I can sort of make out shapes here and there, things become clearer as I approach them...