Category Archives: Comfort & Joy

Discerning Christian’s 2016 guide to gift shopping

Whoops! I was too busy over Thanksgiving to remember to post this year’s AFA Naughty & Nice list in time for the retailers’ holidays; “Black Friday” and Cyber Monday.” Oh well, better late than never   Every year the American … Continue reading

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Finding the Messiah

I discovered “I Met Messiah” a few months back, and found myself fascinated by the various testimonies of Jewish believers in Jesus Christ. Listening to them share their life stories, and recount the various circumstances that led to their conversions … Continue reading

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1st Sunday in Advent

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which Thy Son, Jesus Christ came to visit us in … Continue reading

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Giving Thanks

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Why the U.S. really was founded as a Christian nation

With Thanksgiving just a couple days away, let’s review a bit of history about our country’s founding with this illuminating video from David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) ~     During the presentation, Wood mentions John Adams’ rather famous declaration … Continue reading

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Pack a shoebox – share the joy!

  Christmas is right around the corner – and what better way to begin celebrating the season of our Savior’s birth than by sharing the Good News and joy with children around the world! ‘Tis the week for Operation Christmas … Continue reading

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The Spread of the Gospel

In the end folks, THIS is what truly matters ~     Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; ~ Matthew 28:19

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The Christian remnant in Aleppo

What’s really going on in Syria? Our feckless mainstream media either ignores the ongoing conflict or distorts the facts – usually painting President Bashar al-Assad as the bad guy and the “rebels” as “freedom fighters” – so it’s difficult to … Continue reading

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Disrupting the “old earth” narrative

Is the earth really millions – or even billions – of years old? Not according to these fossils… Paleontologists dig up all kinds of fossils, mostly just small bones or sea shells. But occasionally they discover unusual fossils, like squid … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday William Penn!

This is a re-post of a piece I wrote five years ago. Our country is in even worse shape today. America is dying for lack of wise and principled Christian readers like Penn.     William Penn (1644-1718), founder of … Continue reading

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The complete implausibility of Evolution

If you still believe it’s remotely possible that Charles Darwin was right about his theory of evolution you need to watch this video. Discussing DNA, amino acids, protein construction and nano-scale molecular machines, Jonathan McLatchie (at Answering Muslims) does an … Continue reading

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Prayers for America

It was a beautiful day at the Capitol Building in Lansing today! Perfect weather for a stop on Franklin Graham’s prayer rally tour: “Decision America-2016” ~ Franklin Graham is traveling to all 50 states this year to hold prayer rallies, … Continue reading

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