Sunday, August 31, 2025

Our 10 Favorite Literary Characters It’s our last night in the Colorado mountains (this time around) and after an eventful day that included an early morning work session at the coffee shop in Dillon, a vigorous and gorgeous hike near Keystone, a scare regarding our car’s engine light on the way to Copper Mountain, a…

The Top 5 Plus (August 30)

1) “Facing up to Black Crime in America: We owe it to every victim, in every community, to stoppretending reality doesn’t exist. Truth isn’t racist. Statistics aren’t bigoted.” (John MacGhlionn, American Spectator) From the article — It’s time to face a simple truth: discussing black-on-white crime isn’t racism. It’s reality, and reality doesn’t bend to our feelings…

Denny & Claire Join Nebraska Right to Life at the State Fair

Earlier this week, Claire and I enjoyed once again the opportunity to help out Nebraska Right to Life by manning their information booth at the State Fair in Grand Island. We took the Monday evening shift and the Tuesday morning opening shift and, as always, we were honored to partner with the excellent pro-life champions…

The Top 5 Plus (August 23)

1) “Sitting Ducks For Deception: Pastors, Have You Properly Equipped Your Congregations With A Biblical Worldview?” (Answers In Genesis/Harbinger’s Daily) From the article — It is critical that you teach adults and youth in your church what a worldview is. For example, is there a God or not? If so, what is he like, and what is his…

Pro-Life Quotations? We Got a Bunch of ‘Em!

Looking for a few striking and impressive pro-life quotes to grace your conversations, social media communications, and public presentations? Well, then you need to check out the remarkable lists of quotations that are on the Vital Signs Ministries website. As a matter of fact, you’ll find three large groups of quotes on this VSM page — enlightening…

The Top 5 Plus (August 16)

1) “Social Media And The Battle For The Mind: Who Is Ultimately Influencing The Flow Of Information” (David Bowen, Harbinger’s Daily) From the article — The Apostle Paul warned that in the last days, perilous times would come (2 Timothy 3:1–5). Among the traits he listed were people being “lovers of themselves” and “without self-control.” Social media…

August’s “When Swing Was King” Show Is (Once Again!) A Winner!

It is a busy and blessing-filled week for the “When Swing Was King” part of our ministry with 7 of this month’s 12 shows being presented this week. But we don’t want to be stingy on those blessings. Therefore, we post the August “When Swing Was King” songlist below as a teaser that might encourage…

The Top 5 Plus (August 9)

1) “The Reveal: The Public is Finally Learning How Democrats Pulled Off the Greatest Political Trick in History” (Jonathan Turley) From the article — This week, Washington was rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton…

Letter-Party Update (With Examples!)

A couple of days ago, the Vital Signs Ministries quarterly letter-writing parties were held at our home with 7 letter-writers in attendance at both the morning and evening editions. And beyond those present, there are a couple more concerned Christians who will be using our information to write letters themselves in the next few days….

The Stories You Tell, the Story You Live

“You know, Denny, my friends and I don’t do this at all. I mean, we never tell stories like you and Dad do. The closest we come to anything like it is to recall some scene in a movie or describe something that happened in a NFL game. We don’t tell stories about stuff that…

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