by Joe Romeo | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Life in a post-Genesis 3 world ensures both heavenly and hellish days as we march toward the New Jerusalem. Whether we’re basking in the warmth of God’s blessings or trudging through the snow of a difficult season, notes of grace are all around us. An...
by Joe Romeo | Oct 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints (Psalm 116:15). “Resolved, to think much on all occasions of my own dying, and the common circumstances which attend death” ~ Jonathan Edwards ____________________________________________ They say gray hair...
by Joe Romeo | Sep 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
“You’re just a nice-looking boy, a bit slight, well scrubbed and well mannered. All that is fine, but it’s your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined” ~ Marilynne Robinson[1]...
by Joe Romeo | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Countless books on pastoral ministry flood the Christian market each year. My guess is only a few are worth reading—and perhaps even less worth remembering. Amid the torrent of this year’s releases, one came hot off the presses with much fanfare and many a...
by Joe Romeo | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Note: Fred Sanders’s book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, prompted the following thoughts. _____________________________________________________________________ Evangelicals yearn for immediacy and practicality, not necessarily...
by Joe Romeo | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a lover and occasional writer of poetry, the following words by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) remain emblazoned in my mind, although I first read them years ago: “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose...
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