by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog
“I don’t care if it rains or freezes, as long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus, sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.” That’s the opening line of the 1962 song by the Goldcoast Singers I heard on the car radio one day driving to a university class. I still remember...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog
In the 1955 classic film, Rebel Without a Cause, gang-leader Buzz challenges James Dean’s character, Jim Stark, the new kid in town, to a “chickie run.” They will race each other toward the edge of a cliff in stolen cars. The first who jumps out is the...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Jan 31, 2020 | Blog
The world is consumed by sex and greed. Who can argue with that? Love of the world and lust of the flesh are high on the list of things to avoid in the Gospels and letters of the New Testament. The call to repentance and faith in Christ is predicated...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog
Those who proclaim faith in Christ, the second person of the Trinity, are justified by faith from first to last, Paul writes, and issues of social justice should not be a primary focus of the faith. We, or anyone we touch in this world, can never be justified by our...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
After the Garden of Eden, man was cursed with hard labor as a means of maintaining his very existence. Man’s free lunch was taken away. God cursed the very ground from which He made Adam – and He threw in the whole creation. Laying it on really heavy,...
by Pamela Danziger | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog
Winston Churchill called his dark moods the “black dog.” It was an expression that he borrowed from his nanny who used it to describe when he was out of sorts and in a bad mood. At various times in his life, he said the “black dog” was upon him. Today it is...
