The Bronx Household of Faith Blog
This Is My Father’s World
This is my father's worldand to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings, the music of the spheres. Somehow, riding the subway at 6:00 in the morning in mid-winter darkness, a couple of days a week (to do lap swimming), doesn’t lend itself to hearing...
The Prince of Peace
Knowing that the spiritual battle will rage until that moment, we should not be discouraged nor agitated that it continues in our time. Neither should we retreat into a bunker mentality and passively wait until the warfare is ended.
Three Card Monte
Fordham Road, a very busy street just around the corner from me, I encounter a game called Three Card Monte. It’s a version of the old shell game. The game is usually played with a red ace and two identical black cards. You watch closely
Teens: The Fields White Unto Harvest
The Bronx Household of Faith has ministered to teenagers ever since we opened our doors 40 plus years ago (wherever those doors were located at various times through our history).
This past September to June, we had our largest group of teen guys
Even If You Should Suffer: Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Latest Ruling
In I Peter 3: 14 we are given an essential perspective for facing the coming cultural upheaval the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex ‘marriage’ will generate: “But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will be blessed.” Much of the response to that arrogant redefining of the God-given, universally accepted and historically practiced “natural marriage” from Christian and conservative writers has been to warn of further efforts to punish and silence those who oppose
City Lights: Spring, 2015
In the grand scheme of issues facing Christianity these days, it’s a rather banal, somewhat boring topic, right? Wrong! All of a sudden, in light of the impending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding same sex marriage (caveat: same sex marriage is no marriage) we are being told, not only