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Ed Weihenmayer is the President of our Governing Board at the Chapel where I pastor. Through him I have met his son, Erik, who was the first blind man to summit Mt.Everest. Erik has launched this week his new book NO BARRIERS: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand...
INCREASING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
This report is a timely reminder of the reality of persecution of Christians and the plight of our fellow believers in dangerous places. Spiritual warfare is very real. Click on the link. Christian persecution seen in more locations across the globe, new report shows....
A GREAT RESOURCE IN TERMINAL ILLNESS
Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith and Joy Goldsmith, have done us a great favor by writing SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Brazos Press, 2012. In the light of their experience of several pastors dying while ministering in...
A PRAYER FOR THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADMINISTRATION
Almighty God, you have instituted governments under your authority as your servants. We thank you for the governing bodies of our republic duly constituted to represent all citizens and to provide equal justice under the rule of law. We pray that you will bless your...
WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT?
Yuval Levin, in his latest book, The Fractured Republic, addresses the divisions of our political life. He argues that there is a tendency to become nostalgic for better times. “The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large...
PRAYER FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
Heavenly Father, as we prepare for the inauguration of a new President we pray for a peaceful and fruitful transition to the next Administration. We commend to your keeping Donald Trump, Michael Pence, and all the nominees for Cabinet, White House, and senior...
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND LEFT?
Over the holidays I read two books by Yuval Levin who diagnoses and describes the thinking and convictions behind the current political divisions in the United States. The first was The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left, which...
What are some lessons we need to learn from the early Church?
Why did the early church grow so fast and so far? Tim Keller in his review of two recent books by Larry Hurtado gives three reasons: Christians were called into a unique social project that both offended and attracted people. Christianity offered a direct, personal,...
MICHAEL DIRDA ON THE VALUE OF THE ENGLISH CHRISTIAN TRADITION
I am currently enjoying reading Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda who received the Pulitzer Prize for his essays and reviews in the Washington Post Book World. In his brief essays on the literature of the world you are introduced to a wide range of authors who...
CHRISTMAS WITH ST. NICK
My first twenty-three Christmases were spent in my home in New Zealand where it was the middle of summer. In 1964 I sailed to England to study Theology at the University of Durham. For the first time I was feeling homesick and lonely. My first Christmas away from home...
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