It is March 2, 2009, and I am at the residence of Mrs. Vivian Hunter in Edgerton, Minnesota. MHH: Mrs. Hunter, where and when were you born? VH: I was born in Philadelphia, PA, May 31, 1921. MHH: Who were your parents and what can you tell me about the circumstances of your early […]
You are at sea. Your ship is sound, having passed all pre-departure checks with flying colors. The waves are calm, beating a slow, low rhythm against the hull. You climb the rigging and reach the crow’s nest for another long, boring day of keeping watch along the horizon for any signs of trouble. Hours of […]
May 8- Read 1 Kings 4 I remember talking about the immense amount of food Solomon’s court required when we read this in class. Verses 22 and 23 state, “And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the […]
After so many years of persecution, men from the Calvinists, Anabaptists, and other Protestant branches decided to begin to fight back. They had appealed to Philip II with the plea that included the Belgic Confession to stop the persecution, but he hadn’t listened. It looked like the Reformation might be wiped out of the Netherlands […]
Though there are times where Whitney’s Southern Baptist background of experience and Puritanism are quite apparent, the work as a whole is written from the understanding that “we stand before God only in the righteousness that’s been earned by another, Jesus Christ” (3). The book does not stem from an attitude of legalism or a […]
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch humanist and scholar who lived in the late 15th and early 16th century. In 1509 he wrote a satirical piece called In Praise of Folly. Although he made a better satirist than a theologian, in this work he rightfully exposed and ridiculed the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church. In […]
In the previous article on this subject we noted that twenty percent of teens (1 out of 5) will struggle with severe depression or anxiety before they are adults. This is not only debilitating but can be terrifying. What can be done to avoid this kind of thing happening? The things we need to know […]
Psalm 119:63 Many of you have graduated this past summer. Some will go on to college, others to the work place. Who will be your companions? Where will you seek them? What difference does it make? May the Psalmist’s confession be ours: “I am a companion of all that fear thee, and of them that […]
You know. You pick up your phone and you know it’s going to happen. It’s why you closed your bedroom door. If someone were looking over your shoulder, you would never click on that image or follow that link. If your parents read all of your posts and saw all of your pictures, you would […]