The Bronx Household of Faith Blog
DOMA, Marriage, and the the Image of God
"If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small." (Proverbs 24:10) The church which embraces "the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3) has always had to contend for it against those whose eyes are still blinded by the god of...
When People No Longer Believe Anything, They’ll Believe Anything
From early through mid-twentieth century, Evangelical Christians were derided as intellectual lightweights at best and ignorant fools at worst. They, the Evangelical Christians, insisted on hanging on to impossible-to-believe dogmas such as the Virgin Birth and the...
Why Did Jesus Have to Die?
“And he said to them, ‘O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in...
Must we Always Comment on Life?
For our table devotional reading, we dusted off, Jim Elliot's, Shadow of the Almighty, a book that I read nearly 50 years ago! I'm amazed at how articulate this twentieth-century martyr was in his early twenties. I share this excerpt. Bob Hall "Must we always...
The Gift of Time
The gift of time is second only to the gift of Life itself. To have time, to use time, is a treasured privilege given to the children of the Timeless One-in-Three. The Beginning and the End has intersected Earth's timeline, drawn and directed by Himself alone, and...
On a Different Level
When we entered the Federal Court building last Monday to hear the oral arguments in our case with the DOE, we were met with an impressive figure, presumably representing “Justice.” Holding the scales of justice in her hand, she is blind-folded to ensure the message...