Posts with the tag “cost-of-following-jesus”

A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with one can of food and no way to open it. The physicist says smash it. The chemist says heat it. The economist says: assume a can opener. Assume the problem away. Build your entire framework around a tool you do not actually have. Here is what kept me up this week. There is a day coming when the books will be opened. Every account will be reviewed. And on that day, assuming a can opener will not work. But Yom Kippur has always been a picture of something else entirely. A day when God silences the accuser and wipes the ledger clean in one moment. The question is whose account you are standing in when that day arrives. Read the full post.   Read More