The Top 5 (October 19)

 * “Will the Pro-Life Movement Survive a Kamala Harris Presidency?” (Chris Manion, Population Research Institute) From the article — Planned Parenthood’s reasoning is simple.  They know that, as president, Harris will use her executive authority to “legalize” abortion up to birth across the country.  Even more than that, they also know that she will use all of…

The Top 5 (October 12)

* “Vote FOR 434 & Vote AGAINST 439” (Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Blog) From the release: ““The immediate purpose of Nebraska Initiative 434 is to protect girls, women, and preborn children from the exploitation and lethal violence of abortion with the secondary effects helping to build a stronger culture of life, love, and justice in our state….

Vote FOR 434 & Vote AGAINST 439

October 10, 2024 From: Denny Hartford, Director of Vital Signs Ministries To: All Interested Parties For Immediate Release: Vital Signs Ministries has joined Nebraska Right to Life, the Nebraska Catholic Conference, Nebraska Family Alliance, Students for the Life of America, and other pro-life organizations of longstanding in publicly opposing the zealously pro-abortion Initiative 439 which…

The October LifeSharer is a WOW Read!

 Oh, my! What a September it was for Vital Signs Ministries! The photo-adorned October LifeSharer letterfrom Vital Signs Ministries is out…and up! So check out the momentous ministries of September right here.

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…

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