Hallelujah is a song composed by Leonard Cohen and performed by hundreds of popular music artists. Come Christmas time you may hear another set of lyrics that have been composed as a seasonal (Christian) version. If you want to know more about the background of the song this Mental Floss article has a few facts …

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The sacraments of modern culture are personal achievements, measured, quantified, compared. But they are not enough to provide a satisfaction that we have connection with eternity. There is no rest, only striving. The good news is something better than that. From Chad Bird: In the kingdom of the almighty number, where the first are first …

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Finding security in our ability to successfully construct a life is destructive of relationship because others who do not conform to that from which we derive security detract from our assurance of security. In the Bible it’s as old as Cain and Abel. From J.D. Greear. St. Augustine said that before they sinned, Adam and …

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