Author Archives: jonathanrbaker
A New Year
Greetings, once again. As 2012 begins, one of the things that I would like to improve is the use of my blog. This post is a test of an app called Blogsy, which I am hoping will help make it easier for me to post more often. Anyway, I will have much more [...]
My Soul is Silent Before God Who is My Help
The following is an excerpt from a sermon preached on 15 July 1928 by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Barcelona, Spain. I enjoyed it, and thought I should share it. Our relationship with God must be practised, otherwise we shall not find the right note, the right word, the right language when He comes upon us unawares. [...]
Miracles and Belief…
But here is a paradox: that mysteries such as these provided no disquiet for us, but comfort. Because they granted us permission, and in fact made it necessary, to believe in a God to Whom all mysteries had solutions. With belief in God comes the certainty that the world that He masters has an order. [...]
Before the Flood
So, here is the other book that I picked up at the library the other day. Recent research seems to indicate that the Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake and that as the world sea levels rose at the end of the Ice Age, the Mediterranean suddenly and catastrophically flooded the region. Mr. Wilson [...]
Chivalry
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac
