Last Tuesday Ben Sasse, age 53, wrote a “Letter to America” announcing that he had been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer. Sasse served as a Republican Senator from Nebraska from 2015-2023. He resigned from the Senate in 2023 to become the president of the University of Florida. The following year, he […]
3107) “Friends… I Am Going to Die” Read More »
(…continued) This may seem like a morbid meditation for Advent. We’re busy getting ready for birth not death. We are preparing to hear again ‘that old, old story of Jesus and his birth.’ But Advent celebrates not only the first coming of Christ. It also reminds us that He is coming again, at
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The story at the beginning and some of the ideas for this sermon (from several years ago) were found in “Look Up: An Advent Meditation” by William Willimon, Christian Century; November 30, 1983. ———————————— Luke 21:25-28: (Jesus said), “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in
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Above painting: St. John the Baptist and the Pharisees, by James Tissot (1836-1902) ————————————— For those congregations that follow the Church Year calendar, the first Sunday or two in Advent each year have, as the assigned Gospel reading, something from the life of John the Baptist. John the Baptist was the older cousin
3095) Nothing to Lose Read More »
An article by Joel Belz in World magazine, July 18, 2009 (with slight editing). Note that this article was written sixteen years ago, so the dollar amounts have increased significantly; but the issue is the same, the debate has continued, and we are all sixteen years closer to the time that each of us may
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Less than 25 years after Muslim terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, New York City, home of “ground zero,” just elected a Muslim as its next mayor. Some European cities are already majority Muslim, so what does this mean for America? Speaker and author Abdu Murray (pictured above) takes a closer look at Islam
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“The Truth Shall Set You Free” ———————————— My favorite living author is Philip Yancey. He has written more than 25 books over the last 50 years, and I have read all of them at least once. His mother, who you will hear about today, never read a single one. She raised
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Image above: Billboard from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. ———————————— A response based on Nathaniel Torrey at: http://www.juicyecumenism.com : “Let me get this straight. You, a finite being, with limited knowledge; constantly walking on a knife’s edge between life and death, at the mercy of something as small as a germ or as common as
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By John Stonestreet, August 31,2015 Blog at: www.breakpoint.org Standing on the porch of a locked house, rookie homicide investigator J. Warner Wallace peered into the living room. He could see a man on the floor in a pool of blood, gun by his side. Now the question he had to answer: Was this
3013) A Detective Examines the Evidence for God Read More »
Every once in a while, Easter falls on April Fool’s Day (most recently in 2018; next time will be 2029). “That is perfect,” some will say, implying that only a ‘fool’ would believe someone could rise from the dead. Lee Strobel (1952- ) would have been of that opinion when he was a
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