http://www.brianzahnd.com Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en June 25, 2009. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Two American-culture icons. Dead on the same day. The cynic says, Why all the news coverage for Jacko and Farrah? There's more important news than the death of celebrities. That's one way of looking at it. But there's another way of looking at it. What's really making news is Death. ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=275 The following is not a fully developed essay, as I often do when posting a blog, but just some thoughts I will share in our staff chapel tomorrow morning. Feel free to read them if you like. "The true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the world." -John 1:9 Once a ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=274 "We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world" 1 John 4:14 Do you believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world? This is what the Apostle John claimed in both his gospel and his first epistle. But do you ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=273 Since the publication of What to Do on the Worst Day of Your Life in March, I have given a few dozen interviews, mainly on talk radio, and I have noticed something that bothers me. These interviews have been pretty evenly divided between mainstream format radio and Christian format radio. ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=272 Philip in the highlands Peri, Philip and I spend Memorial Day well above treeline. My heart's in the Highlands wherever I roam. Highlands. I love this song. It's long. 16 minutes and 32 seconds. So slow down and enjoy life. Enjoy Life. That's what I'll preach on Friday night. When we return from the ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=271 Veritas. Truth. Your first allegiance must be to truth. You must love truth before you love God. For without a primary love of truth, how do you know that the God you love is the God that is? Without primary allegiance to truth, you may just love your own ideas which you call God. If ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=270 We live in a loud culture. Religious rhetoric. Political propaganda. Commercial cacophony. People can grow deaf to a constant din of shouting. They shut it out as annoying background noise. That's when a whisper can be heard above a roar. A whisper that is a revelation of a real secret. A whisper that belongs to a hidden mystery. A ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=269 The problem is I’m trying to say something with words, and that is by no means a precise medium; and it should not be assumed that words are anything more than an approximate representation of reality. What is the spoken word but puffs of air? What is the written word ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=268 On this day of internal revenue some of us are paid up, some of us owe, some of us await a refund, some of us have no income to tax. But all of us are taxed, by war, by violence, by anxiety, by deathliness. And Caesar never gives any deep tax relief. We render to Caesar. . . to some it feels ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=267 So I ask you for the umpteenth time, dear blog reader, what does it mean to be saved? Does it mean some part of you, your spirit let's say, is saved to exist in a non-spatial, non-temporal existence following your death? That your spirit is "harvested" for a "spiritual" postmortem ... http://www.brianzahnd.com/index.php?app=blog&p=266