Papa meeting Luke at Christmas: From left, Annie (my wife), Luke (our adopted son), Papa, and Craig (our oldest). I was working in my office yesterday, Spotify randomizing music in the background while I tried to come up with ways to do things that I am not very good at (or at least that IContinue reading “Especially Fond of You”
Author Archives: Andrew Platt
Leadership Sin (Part 3) Pride, Confession, and Redemption
Image: Albrecht Durer: King David Doing Penance, National Gallery of Art. This is the third part of a piece regarding the sin of leadership, namely pride. We began with a look at 1 Timothy 5:19-20 and how that helps us identify pride as the sin that “the rest may fear” as opposed to, for example,Continue reading “Leadership Sin (Part 3) Pride, Confession, and Redemption”
Leadership Sin (Pt. 2): King David’s Pride
Allaert Claesz, David and Bathsheba, Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art “In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. ” 2 Samuel 11:1, NIV In theContinue reading “Leadership Sin (Pt. 2): King David’s Pride”
Leadership Sin (Part 1)
On calling out the sin of leaders: Responding to the Ravi Zacharias Scandal As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear. 1 Timothy 5:20 A few weeks ago the news came my way that Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) had commissionedContinue reading “Leadership Sin (Part 1)”
Hell is a Gift
God loved them enough to make a place where they, by choice, never again have to feel His love.
One Flesh
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Gen. 2:24 ESV) I was watching a video today discussing this passage in Genesis, the author making a point that even literalists interpret it in a figurative fashion. To the author of thisContinue reading “One Flesh”
Hole-y
In a sermon recently, the Beatitudes were described as a counter-response to the sayings of some of the Rabbis of Jesus’ day who would stand up and begin with lines like, “Blessed are the holy, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Imagine, if you will, that Jesus answered them like this: And Jesus addressedContinue reading “Hole-y”
In the Garden…
I heard a sermon not too long ago, one that stands in fine tradition alongside many similar sermons, in which the pastor went to considerable length to describe the agony of Jesus’ experience on the cross. There were details concerning all the inhumanities the Lord suffered as he hung there, his body slowly failing. HadContinue reading “In the Garden…”
Casual Conjecture 