Good morning. May grace and peace be with you on this day and through the week ahead. Today’s Kindle deals are a bit of a hodgepodge, but there are lots of options. (Yesterday on the blog: The Children’s Hour) When I Discovered I Had 3 Fathers This is quite an article by Blair Line. “When my grandmother died in the summer of 2019, my family bought our black suits and dresses and packed our bags. After the service, a family …
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I have come to love and appreciate the poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I find that wherever I am at in life, he has a poem that speaks to it. And that’s the case today, on Father’s Day, as I think back to the years gone by. His poem “The Children’s Hour” is a celebration of his daughters and his love for them, and I think any father will be able to identify with it. Between the dark and the …
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May the Lord bless and keep you as you enjoy him this weekend. (Yesterday on the blog: It’s All Chocolate) The Good Commission I’ve read many articles on a similar theme, but this one added an interesting element: the notion of “the good commission.” A Good Friday Ride Sophia Lee tells about an evangelistic opportunity and how it made her reconsider how astonishing and offensive the gospel is. I’m quite sure I’ve had pretty much that same conversation many times …
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It is one of the great debates of a privileged age: is dark chocolate superior to milk, or milk to dark? Both have their advocates. The ones who prefer dark chocolate boast of the flavor of cocoa that is undisrupted by excess sugar, that so wonderfully compliments the bitterness of a dark coffee. The ones who prefer milk tell that milk and sugar enhance the flavor of cocoa the way they do the flavor of tea. Cocoa is at its …
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Remembering Finn I think you’ll enjoy reading Kristin’s memories of Finn. Christians, Beware the Blame Game Carl Trueman comes through with another solid column here. “The church’s exile from mainstream culture is going to be hard, but the Bible makes it clear that she wins in the end. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her. That is the source of our hope at this …
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