Building on the Foundation

  From time to time, I like to watch National Geographic’s docuseries, Seconds From Disaster , especially the episodes covering airplane crash investigations. As the series illustrates, man-made disasters often stem from seemingly minor and easily overlooked errors. Most often, they’re caused by a chain reaction of such errors, any of which could’ve been avoided. Once there was a manufacturing defect in a jet engine’s turbofan. Over the years, and after 40,000 hours in the sky, this defect developed a stress fracture invisible to the human eye. Flight after flight, this hairline fracture grew, but maintenance crews never noticed. Finally, one summer day in 1989 at 37,000 feet above the earth, the fan ripped apart and shattered. Like rockets, these shards of titanium tore through the engine and the tailfin of the aircraft, severing the hydraulic lines and rendering the aircraft nearly uncontrollable. As the plane lurched toward the earth, the pilots summoned every ounce of flying sk...

  Lately, I've been reading through Romans and the love chapter in Corinthians for my personal bible study. I noticed something interesting in my reading: Love and the holy spirit are inextricably linked together. This makes love really, really important, a paramount aspect of our faith in Jesus Christ. Since love is so important, there are a couple of questions we should probably answer in order for us to be able to properly express it. What is love, and how do we show it? Does loving people mean we tolerate and accept anything? This last question is going to be the main focus of this article, for answering the other questions is beyond the scope of a single article. We hear a lot about love and tolerance these days. On the news, on social media, from our friends, and maybe even from the pulpit at Church. They tell us that the terms love and tolerance are interchangeable with each other. We are told that to love someone, we must tolerate all of their actions. There's only one ...