Making my way through the "histories" of the OT again. This morning - 1st Samuel. Samuel's name means something like "heard of God", sounding suspiciously similar to the Hebrew word…
andrewarndtJanuary 13, 2011
Monday mornings are such a funny time for me... after church on Sunday night, I feel like a bomb has exploded in my head, and I spend the next 24…
andrewarndtJanuary 3, 2011
I absolutely love reflecting on the "year"... both the year spent and the year upcoming. The chance to think back upon all that happened (and didn't happen) and to think…
andrewarndtDecember 29, 2010
Okay okay, so it's been a few days since I've posted an "Advent Words"... been a bit busy : ) The earliest Christian confessions included a line that went something…
andrewarndtDecember 9, 2010
Matthew recollects the story of Jesus "advent" into the world as follows: 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the…
andrewarndtDecember 5, 2010
Friday is Sabbath in Arndtville, so in lieu of writing a blog, I'll post the weekly Advent prayer from the Book of Common Prayer... which, speaking of, if you don't…
andrewarndtDecember 3, 2010
The great 20th century writer JRR Tolkien (of Lord of the Rings fame) coined a literary term that I think is absolutely brilliant: "eucatastrophe". Eucatastrophe refers to a sudden, dramatic…
andrewarndtDecember 2, 2010
Once upon a time, a lonely Jew toughing out life in a hard place penned these words: Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy…
andrewarndtDecember 1, 2010
Jesus, we are told, is the "light of the world." This light is intimately and definitionally related to the life that he is and that he brings. John declares: "In…
andrewarndtNovember 30, 2010
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