Plumb Line Protestantism
The plumb line is an old building tool that helps the constructor to correctly erect the walls. It is a weight hanged on a line that serves to vertically orient…
Stuck in the Old Testament
A man called Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese military soldier who was deployed in December 1944, during the second world war, to defend a small island in the Philippines where…
Embracing Modernity
Once I participated in a conference where they made us go through an interesting exercise. They made us write with the opposite hand that we are use to. Therefore the…
Clash of Generations
I’ll never forget the first time I felt completely outdated. We were going as a family to the Mall when my daughters asked me if I was going with the…
Rustless Church
In the last book of the bible God defines himself as the “Alpha and the Omega”, that is, the beginning and the end. In other words, God is the past…
Other Ways
I acquired my first driver’s licence in the United States where driving happens in the right side of the road and the driver seats on the left side of the…
Dancing with the music
When our first daughter was born my wife and I were divisional youth secretaries of the Salvation Army in Rio de Janeiro, the marvellous city. It was common to have…