Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English journalist and author. He wrote over 100 books and over 4000 newspaper columns and articles. He was an adult convert to Christianity, a…
Retired pastor and author John Claypool tells the story of a discussion he had one time with his children’s babysitter, an elderly lady who lived a few blocks…
By Aristides in APOLOGY, 137 A. D.; from The Early Christians: In Their Own Words (ch. 3, #24); Selected and Edited by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935). Reprinted from www.bruderhof.com. It…
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III; a letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, June 7, 1959 I am sorry to hear that so many troubles crowd upon…
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a colonial preacher and theologian-- perhaps the greatest of all American theologians. As a young man (in 1722-23), he wrote 70 resolutions by which he hoped…
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ----------- To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by…
Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) was a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology. He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606. This piece…
George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 27, 1842. He had only partial vision as a boy. After he entered Glasgow University, his…
(...continued) The question of why we are here and where we are going has two possible answers, one comes from an old beer commercial, and…
On July 25, 2008 Randy Pausch died at the age of 47. He was a Computer Science professor at Columbia University and had been in…