Chapel Wild Blog: Notes from along the way.

A Hundred Circling Camps

Let us remember that most people want what is simple and good. Let us remember one another. The blood of our countrymen is in the ground we walk over. Push... Read more...

The Forgiving Father

…”al-LEDG-ED-ly”… This is the way I heard someone who was opposed, really opposed, to the Christian influence on the world and the standard version of history attempt to control the direction of... Read more...

Make Known the Paths

T-shirt, Psalm, News, Quotes, Apologetics (John Lennox), and an Important Ancient Christian Mosaic Considering the large number of fellow Americans who are suffering from floods and fires (remember Appalachia?), I... Read more...

As God Loves You

Forgiveness is easy to think about. It’s easy to write about. It can get us into the scriptures and make us feel … Christian. Actually forgiving someone, however, is very,... Read more...

Love Is Not A Victory March

Leonard Cohen wrote many, many verses for his song, “Hallelujah.”  Most we never hear, but he spent years working on that song, only to have it … flop.  His original... Read more...

A Letter to Christians

There is no problem that Christianity is not capable of handling.  It is only those who will not humble themselves that prevent grace from overflowing.  Jesus is not on your... Read more...

Ignatius of Antioch - TRUTH HATES DELAY

Ignatius of Antioch is a central figure in my story of faith, so I thought I'd make a shirt to encapsulate a bit of his story.  But first... Years ago,... Read more...

What Is Man - Psalm 8

Psalm 8 is short enough to include the whole text here, so let's read it: 1O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!You have set your... Read more...

TELL THE TRUTH

Jesus calls humanity to humility.  He upsets the apple cart by trying to set the apple cart upright. We must work the works of him who sent me while it... Read more...

Trinity

We see three men. “What are they?” we ask. “They are human beings,” we answer. Each is man, possessing the same humanity and the same human nature defined in a... Read more...

Habakkuk 3

THERE ARE BAD DAYS, and there are life-altering seasons.If you have ever wondered what the next day or even the next hour would bring,then you can relate. The Lord sees... Read more...

Beginning to Pray (2)

The day when God is absent, when He is silent -that is the beginning of prayer.Not when we have a lot to say, but when we say to God, 'I can't live without You, why are you so cruel, so silent?'This knowledge that we must find or die - that makes us break through to the place where we are in the Presence. Read more...

Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom

"The only question I keep asking myself in life is: what should I do at this particular moment? What should I say? All you can do is be at every... Read more...