RSS FeedHILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS
Hillbilly Elegy is the second most read nonfiction book on Amazon and has been on the list for eleven weeks. J.D. Vance has written a compelling and eye-opening memoir that is stirring up a lot of controversy. A product of hillbilly Tennessee and Ohio J.D. maintains...
WHAT DISTRACTS US FROM READING TODAY?
This article by Phil Yancey on what distracts us from reading today is timely. http://wapo.st/2vpFhdP?tid=ss_mail-amp
PARENT ALERT – YOU ARE RAISING PERPETUAL ADOLESCENTS
In The Vanishing American Adult, U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, Ph.D. in American history from Yale writes, “I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual...
SEVEN WISE WISHES FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaking at his son’s middle-school graduation, June 3, 2017 From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal...
THE DEMONIC EVIL OF ATHEISM
Karl Marx I have become more convinced that the greatest threat to Christianity in the West is not Islam but atheism. More and more younger people are responding to censuses as “No Religion” or “Nones”. They have naively absorbed the secular teaching of the...
AN EXAMPLE OF PASSIONATE WORSHIP
My brother-in-law, Captain Bill Weimer, a retired Navy Chaplain who served with the Marines in Operation Desert Storm, sent me this inspirational video of U.S. Marines in worship. Worth sharing. Would that Sunday morning worship was as energetic!...
THE NEED FOR PASSIONATE PREACHING
While on vacation in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed by a series of cartoons of William E. Gladstone, British politician and Prime Minister during Queen Victoria’s reign. The cartoonist showed Gladstone giving speeches in the House of...
A PRAYER ON MY BIRTHDAY AND FOR THE FUTURE
"I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH" Acts 2:17f. Pour out your Spirit on me Lord, so that I will see visions and dreams. Visions of heavenly realities beyond earthly appearances. Dreams of things as they are in your Presence and Power. Dimensions of life that give...
THE HOLY SPIRIT
On the Holy Spirit, Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea 379 AD. The titles given to the Holy Spirit most surely stir the soul of anyone who hears them, and make one realize that they speak of nothing less than the supreme Being. Is he not called the Spirit of God, the...
JOHN STOTT REMEMBERED
I would like to share with you an excellent article on my mentor and first boss, John Stott. He continues to inspire me in my ministry. Share this with your pastor and friends. http://www.virtueonline.org/10-profound-quotes-cross-christ-john-stott ...
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