Above: An engraving of the Nativity from a 15th century hand-copied devotional book, created around the time of Luther’s birth and just before the widespread use of the printing press. ***************** From ‘ Sermon for Christmas Day’; Text: Luke 2:1-14; by Martin Luther (1483-1546) …Behold how very ordinary and common things are to […]
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Fifty years ago today, on November 22, 1963, C. S. Lewis died of kidney failure. The death of one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century was overshadowed by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy one hour later. Lewis was already a popular writer in 1963, and in the half century since
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From “The Clergy of America: Anecdotes,” p. 91-94, published 1869 A writer in the Christian Review of 1839 gives the following account of a scene he himself witnessed. Speaking of Dr. Griffin, he says: We remember him on one occasion, preaching before a large evening assembly. As he entered the sanctuary,
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Each time we recite the Apostle’s Creed we say we believe that Jesus ‘ascended into heaven.’ Acts chapter one tells us that in the forty days after his resurrection Jesus appeared several times to the apostles he had chosen, and, ‘gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.’ Then he went up to
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July the 14th, 1861 Washington DC My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days– perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.
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…The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not
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(…continued) This is powerfully seen in the story of the three men in the fiery furnace in the Old Testament book of Daniel. Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had created a huge statue of himself and commanded that everyone in the kingdom bow down and worship it. Three of the king’s most trusted servants, Shadrach, Meshach, and
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Life is filled with tests. If you want to drive a car, you have to take a test. If you want to get a job, you often have to take a test to see if you qualify. And of course the school years are full of tests. And these tests usually measure either
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Above: Arctic Tern migration route One more from Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 165-168, Copyright, 2013. (For more on Phil Robertson see Blog #113) …We can make as many improvements as we want to our duck blinds, but they’ll never be as good as the ancestral holes. Some of
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By Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 189…195f, Copyright, 2013. Phil Robertson began making duck calls in 1972 and has built the Duck Commander Company into a multi-million dollar international family business. He is the patriarch of the Robertson family which is featured on the popular A&E television reality show Duck
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