November 2019

Before his conversion to Christianity, Lee Strobel (1952- ) had been a journalist for fourteen years.  He was also an atheist.  Here is the story of how Strobel got started on his spiritual journey to faith in Jesus.  This article (in two parts) is adapted from his book The Case for Christmas.  Strobel has written […]

“HOLLYWOOD’S HARRIET: A Real Heroine and a Powerful God” by John Stonestreet with Maria Baer, posted November 8, 2019, at:  http://www.breakpoint.org ———————-      “Sometimes it stings, like a slap in the face.”  That’s how Araminta Tubman – known best as Harriet – describes hearing the voice of God in the new Focus Features’ movie

By Rick Warren, November 7 ‘Daily Hope’ devotional  blog at:  http://www.pastorrick.com ————————————–      God is more interested in your character than your comfort.  He’s not going to give you things if you haven’t learned the principle of contentment first.       Contentment is not a lack of ambition.  It’s not a lack of goals. 

Matthew 14:15-21  —  As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late.  Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”  Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away.  You give them something to eat.”  “We have here

    ——————————          I was browsing around in a Barnes and Noble bookstore one day and saw a table featuring “Thought-Provoking Books.”  Items on the table included entertaining books of mathematical brain-teasers, mind-boggling books on astronomy and physics, and off-the-wall books on politics.  There were also several books on the topic of religion

Millard Fuller was the founder of ‘Habitat for Humanity.’  In his book Love in the Mortar Joints, 1980, (pages 70, 71) he tells this story from the early of the organization, when people were still trying to understand what he was doing. ——————————      Even though many people throughout the United States understood and supported this effort to

———————————– By Robert Fulghum (1937- ), from his 1991 book “UH-OH!”  Fulghum was also the author of the best-selling All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1989). ——————      It was the summer of 1959.  At a resort inn in the Sierra Nevada of Northern California, I had a job that combined being

“Fragile Worshipers” by Richard Beck, at: http://www.experimentaltheology.blogspot.com; posted March 7, 2016 —————————      I used to be a fragile worshiper.      I’d go to church and there would always be something that set me off.  Sometimes it would be a song lyric that I found theologically problematic or overly sentimental.  Sometimes it was something

By Shane Clairborne  (1975- ) Christian author, activist, and speaker. ————————–      I was fascinated by the life of Mother Teresa.  So, with childlike innocence, a few of my friends and I said, “Well, let’s just write her a letter, and let’s see if we can come learn from her.”  So we wrote her

     William Tyndale was born in late 15th-century England, about 90 years after the church had banned the only complete English Bible in the world, the translation made by John Wycliffe.  Wycliffe maintained that being ignorant of the Scripture is the same as being ignorant of Christ.  But his translation from the Latin Vulgate