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Jeffrey L. Sajdak

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Rain and Drought

My wife, Karin, handed our young son to a nurse who would take him to an operating room for open-heart surgery. As I watched, I felt kinship with Abraham taking Isaac up Mount Moriah, with hope that they would return down the mountain together. We took Tyler up Mount Moriah to open-heart surgery three times—at six days, four months, and eighteen months—and all three times we returned home with him. Tyler was diagnosed in utero with a heart defect that…
Jeffrey L. Sajdak
October 1, 2011
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The Fourth Act

Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell's essay, "Reformed Intramurals: What Neo-Calvinists Get Wrong" (February 2008), touched on some important challenges for neo-Calvinists today. His concluding story about the great theatre deftly highlights these challenges; yet the story he tells is incomplete. The drama needs another act. His story is of a great theatre, unparalleled in its beauty and design. But something happened to knock it off kilter. Every performance on the stage, indeed, every performer on it, was affected by the damage that was…
Jeffrey L. Sajdak
June 1, 2008
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Staying In Earshot

Airline travel provides opportunities to meet people with stories to tell. Some travelers pray about those who will sit next to them so that they can have an opportunity to share the gospel or to encourage a fellow believer. I, however, pray that the person next to me will have an entertaining tale for me. As Chaucer demonstrated, interesting companions on a journey, especially a religious pilgrimage, can make travel a pleasure. All That's Holy is the story of Tom…
Jeffrey L. Sajdak
May 16, 2004