Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2011
Amazon is currently running a promotion: Get any 2 audiobooks for free when you sign up for a 30-day trial of Audible.com. Use the service or cancel later to avoid any fees. Here are the two I picked: R.C. Sproul: The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World A.W. Tozer: God’s Pursuit of Man: [...]
Posted in General on Apr 12th, 2011
This hero is probably someone you’ve never heard of, but you’ll find at least eight life lessons on what a true hero of the Bible is like. I did not come up with the life lessons, but only took down some notes during a message given at the weekly Bible study I’m involved with. Our group has been going [...]
Posted in General on Apr 8th, 2011
I’ve received a lot of valuable insight from Al Mohler’s “Thinking in Public” podcasts lately, but here’s one that really stuck out to me, and I can’t help but recommend it to every Christian. Media Ecology and the Modern Mind: A Conversation with T. David Gordon Listen to the podcast here. Posted April 4th, 2011. | [...]
Posted in General on Apr 7th, 2011
Here’s Loralie, holding a letter that my wife wrote to her. We financially support Loralie’s education through an organization called Three Angels Children’s Relief. “Three Angels Christian Academy currently serves over 285 children from preschool through 6th grade. We strive to provide uniforms, textbooks, instruction and often, the only meal of the day for these [...]
Posted in General on Feb 17th, 2011
“God does not search around to find you a mate that’s compatible. More than likely he’s going to search around and find you a mate that’s totally incompatible with you. Why? He’s going to give you a mate that’s strong in all the areas where they must be strong that you not be tempted beyond [...]
Posted in General on Jan 12th, 2011
The heroism of men like Dick Winters, who led Easy Company in WWII (seen in the “Band of Brothers” HBO miniseries) opened the way for the Allied victory over the Nazi regime. Winters just passed away the other day, at 92 years old. Mr. Winters was a very private man, and then gained much attention [...]
Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2011
A year ago I moved into my first home, after plenty of planning, preparing, praying, and a messy escrow process. Months later once my fiancé became my wife, she moved in, giving it that desperately needed woman’s touch. Looking back on the last year of God’s faithfulness to Karen and I, we’ve been able to use [...]
Posted in General on Sep 9th, 2010
There’s a lesson we cannot miss here in this heavily-covered news story about Terry Jones, who was planning to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11. What’s interesting is the assumptions of President Obama and General Petraeus; that a violent response would come from Muslims. Abraham Piper asks this very good question regarding [...]
