The Top 5 (Plus) for October 5

* “DHS: FEMA Does Not Have Funds to Make It Through Hurricane Season, $640M Allotted for Illegal Immigrants” (Hannak Knudsen, Breitbart) From the article — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the remainder of hurricane season, yet $640 million has been allotted to DHS specifically…

A Colorado Conversion Story

Denny Hartford gives a brief testimony of his conversion to Christianity through the ministry of Young Life way, way back in the day.

Francis Schaeffer on Cool vs Hot Communication

“According to Marshal McLuhan in the theory of communication, hot communication is communication that has content, that speaks to men and moves men through the mind on the basis of that content. Cool communication is a kind of personal first-order-experience where in one is moved but without any content passing through his mind, his reason……

“Keep Your Hands Off It” — Sherlock Holmes and the Suicide

“The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” is a very unusual Sherlock Holmes story.  The shortest of all the Holmes short stories and written quite late in the “canon” (February 1927, the 54th of the 56 Holmes short stories), Conan Doyle uses it to illustrate Holmes’ moral convictions rather than his intellectual skills.  Indeed, in “The…

The Top 5 (September 28)

* “Pastor Roundtable: What Is a Pastor’s Role in Politics?: Helping your church apply faith to the public square” (Lindsay Nicolet, Editorial Director of the ERLC of the Southern Baptists and Pastors Jon Nelson, Eric Costanzo, and Daniel Darling) From the article —  It is not incidental that God has called American Christians to live in this…

So, You’re Pregnant

 This very short clip is superb so check it out and pass it along. For passed along the line, who knows whose life it might significantly influence? (By the way, my mega-thanks to the Canadian pro-life organization Choice42 for this terrific video.)

The Top 5 (September 21)

* “Yes, Democrats And Their Propaganda Media Support Late-Term Abortion And Infanticide” (Stella Morabito, Federalist) From the article — When Trump said he is against late-term abortion, Davis proceeded to “fact-check” him by claiming “there’s no state in this country where it’s legal to kill a baby after it’s born.” Ever since, media outlets from The Guardian…

Jumping Into the Pit

One often hears about how far America has fallen — cultural devolution; the unraveling of morality; the precipitous decline in standards of education, law enforcement, and patriotism; the coarseness of public discourse and decorum; the irrelevance and apathy of the modern Church; and so on. Indeed, it is grievously obvious that America is in a…

But be doers of the word,
and not hearers only.