Finding your capacity to love…

If you think love grows best where there aren’t any difficulties, maybe you should read this. Well, maybe you should read it anyway, because what passes for ‘love’ in this day and age, all too often isn’t love at all, but something far, far smaller and weaker. And that’s really too bad, all around. hat [...]

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Preaching a fatally compromised gospel…

… is not preaching the Gospel, as Eric Metaxas illustrates in What Would Bonhoeffer Do?

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The rest of the story

Eric Metaxas notes what is motivating some of the dissidents in China, including the most famous one at the moment.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

I read Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin this week, in a free Kindle edition. I’m not sure what I expected, but the book was better than I anticipated, with wit, wonderful descriptions, action, suspense, layers of story upon story, amazing characterizations, and surprise twists. I learned some history, which I like to do while [...]

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Thanksgiving Day 1814

THANKSGIVING DAY 1814 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION The two Houses of the National Legislature having by a joint resolution expressed their desire that in the present time of public calamity and war a day may be recommended to be observed by the people of the United States [...]

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“Not All Turkey and Touchdowns”

Historian Thomas S. Kidd provides some background and perspective on tomorrow’s holiday in the United States. And just in case you don’t know, technically we shouldn’t be calling the Pilgrims of the Mayflower “Puritans.” Kidd explains: The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony weren’t the first Europeans to settle in North America, nor were they the first [...]

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A look at Christianity and early American history

This Albert Mohler interview with historian Thomas S. Kidd covers a variety of topics, from The Great Awakening to religious persecution in early America.

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Armor sitting on the floor does you no good

Yesterday’s sermon included the rather familiar passage about putting on the armor of God – but with an emphasis on the fact that God provides the armor, but you have to put it on. A lot of Christians seem to miss that, the pastor said. Their armor, so to speak, sits on the floor, and [...]

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Exsultate justi

Via Michael Potemra, some music written by Franciscan friar/composer Lodovico Viadana (1560-1627):

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The Founders’ Faith

Some American history, from Citizen Magazine (emphasis in original): …Today, there are some — mainly on the Left — who paint the Founders not as Christians but as Deists, believers in an impersonal creator who left his creations to fend for themselves. But while that description fits less than a handful of the Founders, to [...]

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