By Andree Seu Peterson, posted August 15, 2018, at http://www.wng.org , published September 1, 2018 in World magazine. My father’s garden is a money-loser. If you count the man-hours, seed catalog purchases, water usage, and petrol expended in transporting trapped raccoons out to the hinterlands, each tomato may cost 50 bucks. Dwelling on […]
1962) God and Facts and Perspective Read More »
“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” by Allan Sherman, 1963: ————————— By Andree Seu Peterson, posted August 1, 2018, at http://www.wng.org , published August 18, 2018 in World magazine. A big hit in the summer of 1963 was Allan Sherman’s novelty song Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp). Here is the gist: “It’s
1961) Waiting for God Read More »
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” –The Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 4:16 Paul can’t see the way he used to (and there were no glasses). He can’t hear the way he used to (and there were no hearing aids).
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By Randy Alcorn, posted August 6, 2018, at: http://www.epm.org ————————— Mountain climbers could save time and energy if they reached the summit in a helicopter, but their ultimate purpose is conquest, not efficiency. Sure, they want to reach a goal, but they desire to do it by testing and deepening their character, discipline, and
1945) Why Not Just Take a Helicopter? Read More »
By pastor and author Randy Alcorn, at: http://www.epm.org When I’m asked who my favorite character from my novels is, I always say it’s Obadiah Abernathy in Dominion, who played baseball in the old Negro leagues. He modeled dignity, grace, wisdom, and humor. My sports inspiration for Obadiah was Buck O’Neil of the Kansas City Monarchs, but
1934) Someday He’ll Make It Plain Read More »
By Vaneetha Rendall Risner (pictured above), a freelance writer who blogs at: danceintherain.com. She is the author of The Scars That Have Shaped Me: How God Meets Us in Suffering. ——————————————– There are so many things I wish someone could have told me at thirty, because at thirty I thought I had life figured out.
1767) Strong and Weak Read More »
“Truth, Grace, and My Father’s Conversion at Age 84,” by Randy Alcorn, posted August 1, 2012 at: http://www.epm.org My father was the most resistant person to the gospel I’ve ever known. He warned me never to talk to him again about “that religious stuff.” At age eighty-four, Dad was diagnosed with terminal
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by Tabor Laughlin, at http://www.desiringgod.org ——————————- When I was in middle school, my mother started having some strange symptoms following a bad car accident. She easily felt dizzy, to the point that she couldn’t drive anymore. She began losing control over her muscles. She would kick her legs around uncontrollably, and she experienced
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(…continued) “We know that moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that ‘suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.’ “Let’s
1620) Is God Good? (b) Read More »
By best-selling author Lee Strobel with Boston College philosophy professor and author Peter Kreeft ———————– “Is God really ‘all-good’ as Christians believe?” Peter Kreeft was asked by Lee Strobel. “Good is a notoriously tricky word,” Peter Kreeft began, “because even in human affairs there’s such a wide range of meaning. But the
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