God

“The God Who Condescends” | Kalman C. Doka

by andrewkooman on August 24, 2011

Note: I transcribed the following sermon which was undated and untitled.  I have chosen the title  from the language of the text.  — AK The God Who Condescends Text: John 4: 1-26 Some years ago J.B. Phillips wrote a book entitled Your God is Too Small. It is a very suggestive title, and especially pertinent [...]

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Commissioned Work

by andrewkooman on September 22, 2010

Way back in the 1490s, a man of many talents  was commissioned by the French ambassador in the Holy See to sculpt one of his most well known works, the Pietà.  Upon its completion, one of the artist’s contemporaries wrote, “It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been [...]

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John Paul Vicory: Why Orphans Matter

by andrewkooman on June 19, 2010

I met John Paul Vicory a few years ago in Hawaii.  He was part of a troupe of photographers compiling a book of their experience traveling the globe.  I was impacted, especially, by a story he told of the time he and his team spent in conversation with sex workers in the Red Light district [...]

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Put THAT in your pipe and… distribute it?

by andrewkooman on June 10, 2010

Our prayer is like pipes, through which water is carried from a large mountain stream to a town some distance away.  Such water pipes don’t make the water willing to flow down from the hills, nor do they give it its power of blessing and refreshment.  This is its nature.  All they do is to [...]

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If God Had A Facebook Account, What Would He Write On Your Wall?

by andrewkooman on May 27, 2010

I was asked to share at the first annual Gateway Christian School Alumni Chapel about Hearing God’s Voice, a chapel filled with energetic students from grade four to grade twelve, some of their parents, their teachers, and a dozen or more alumni.  As I prepared, I started to think  a lot about prayer.  I believe [...]

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Worldview Teach: What is Justice?

by andrewkooman on February 8, 2010

What is justice? Is it an abstract concept that we grope to understand, as if in the dark?  Is it something we, mere men, can put into words? How central is a system of belief in absolutes to defining the term? Is it something we can only quantify when we perceive a wrong done against [...]

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