By my favorite living Christian author, Philip Yancey, in his October 16, 2016 blog at www.philipyancey.com , adapted from his book A Skeptic's Guide to Faith, Zondervan, 2009 (previously published…
From A Diary of Private Prayer, 1949, by John Baillie, Church of Scotland pastor and theologian, (1886-1960); containing a morning and evening prayer for thirty-one days (adapted). ------------------------ MORNING PRAYER (Nineteenth…
The coffee shop was a tiny hole-in-the-wall place, open 24 hours a day. The lunch counter had the antiseptic shine of stainless steel, and in the early morning…
From Tramp for the Lord, by Corrie ten Boom, 1974, pages 55-57. It was in a church in Munich that I saw him– a balding, heavyset man…
By Joshua Rogers, posted October 24, 2016 on his blog Finding God in the Ordinary at: www.joshuarogers.com --------------------------- “Color with me, Daddy,” my oldest daughter said. “I…
Mike and Connie, the text I have chosen for your wedding is from the story of another wedding, the story of Isaac and Rebekah in Genesis 24. Isaac’s…
French tending to their wounded in the trenches of WWI ------------------------------ Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a French novelist. At the outbreak of the first World War in 1914,…
Or, we could try the Ten Commandments... ----------------------------- From "How the Ten Commandments Stop Us From Cheating" by Christian B. Miller, October 18, 2016, at: www.christianity.com . Miller is professor…
From A Diary of Private Prayer, 1949, by John Baillie, Church of Scotland pastor and theologian, (1886-1960); containing a morning and evening prayer for thirty-one days (adapted). ------------------------ MORNING PRAYER (Thirtieth…
2nd Massachusetts Lieutenant Colonel Wilder Dwight (1833-1862) ------------------------------ On September 17, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Wilder Dwight was on his horse waiting for the order to go into battle…