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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fishermen upon a Lee-Shore, in Squally Weather...
Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it! (Psalm 98:7) JMW Turner exhibited the painting at the Royal Academy in 1802 when the artist was 27 years old. The critic...
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3 Lessons that Jesus Teaches Teachers
JMW, Turner (1775-1851) Waves breaking against the wind, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Tate Britain He taught them as One having authority, and not as the scribes” (Matthew 7:29). I think of Turner’s...
View ArticleTruth that Transforms for 3/30/14: A New World on its Way
“The message of the Church in the world is essentially optimistic,” says Dr. Michael Milton, “because there is a new heaven and a new earth underway.” The conclusion to the series Silent No More: Why...
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An Evening Star Devotion
“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). “The Evening Star” is the title of a painting by the eminent English seascape painter,...
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An Independence Day Tribute: Samuel Adams and the ‘Divine Being’ Question
Sometimes I read or hear analysts pointing to the founding fathers’ use of phrases such as “Supreme Ruler” or the “Divine Being” as evidence that these men were speaking of a Deist conception of God....
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Bonhoeffer, Creation, and the Psalms
Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 14 December 1926), La Vigne en octobre, 1912. The Lord surely knew that I needed a divine cordial to eniven my step this day. Sometimes we need to...
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Bach’s Fugue, Bonhoeffer’s Fragments, and the Prelude to Living: A...
Before Thy Throne I Now Appear It was 1750. There is a story, thought to be apocryphal by some, yet confirmed by others,[1] that as the great Johann Sebastian Bach[2] lay dying he dictated the music of...
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On the Purpose of Education
“The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by...
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The Self-evident, Incorrigible, Sensible Fig: Proper Basic Beliefs in Action
When you taste a ripened fig from a fig tree in the summer—it is winter as I write, so I am dreaming of summer foods, even as I sip on hot chocolate—, if you are like me, you experience pure joy. The...
View ArticleIn the Cross of Christ I Glory
As we begin this week leading up to Good Friday and then Easter, what better way to begin than by looking at the cross? Dr. Michael Milton, shares his message, “In the Cross of Christ We Glory,”...
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