      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 sight failed rapidly and he became totally blind at the age of eighteen.  Despite this handicap he was a brilliant scholar and finished the University and […]
418) “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” by George Matheson Read More »
 Adapted from The Furious Love of God: A Story Behind the Black Mass by Eric Metaxas, May 23, 2014, at:  www.breakpoint.org May 23, 2014    As you may have heard, a club at Harvard had planned to reenact a “black mass” at the university’s Memorial Hall.    For those of you unfamiliar
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ALL THOSE CHINESE CHRISTIANS CAN’T BE WRONG: THE CULTURE-SHAPING POWER OF CHRISTIANITY By Eric Metaxas, April 28, 2014 at:  www.breakpoint.org      At the time of Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Christianity in China seemed on the verge of extinction.    Less than four decades later though, not only has Christianity
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      By the age of 30, Albert Schweitzer was already a world-renowned organist and expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.  I don’t know much about music history, but it is said that his work changed the course of world-wide organ studies and performance.  Also by the age of 30, that same
366) Albert Schweitzer’s Jesus Read More »
Albert Schweitzer;Â Theologian, Musician, Medical Missionary ———— Constant kindness can accomplish much. Â As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Do not let Sunday be taken from you. Â If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Example is leadership… Â Example is not the main thing in influencing
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Pictured above: Celtic Cross, Ireland ****************************************** Bringing Christ to the Irish    Who am I, Lord, that you should appear to me and call me, so that today among the barbarians I might constantly and everywhere exalt and magnify your name, not only in good fortune, but even in affliction?  Whatever befalls me,
340) St. Patrick in His Own Words (part three of three) Read More »
Pictured above:  Ruins of St. Patrick’s Church, Wexford, Ireland *************************************** Patrick Escapes, Guided by a Voice    And it was there that one night in my sleep I heard a voice saying to me, “…Soon you will depart for your home country.” And again, a short time later, there was a voice saying: “Behold,
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The following introduction to St. Patrick is adapted from the author information at http://www.ccel.org The meditations that follow are an edited paraphrase of the text of The Confession of St. Patrick also at that website. Â Â Â Saint Patrick (420?-March 17, 493?), the patron saint of Ireland, was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain
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   Sarah Weinstein was 11 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked.  Sarah, an American, was living in the Philippines where her father was working.  Japan was on a mission to conquer and rule all of Southeast Asia, and now, since America’s Pacific fleet was destroyed at Pearl Harbor, an invasion of the Philippines
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    March 4, 1865; 149 years ago today.  Within five weeks after Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address the Civil War would be over (April 9th), and six days after that, Lincoln would be dead.  This political speech, one of the greatest in American history, is worth meditating on in the context of our Christian faith. Â
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