It was an excellent year “between the covers.” Book covers, that is. My total number of books ended up at 71 with several sizeable challenges among them. The highlights (almost all of them being re-reads) included the whole of the Sherlock Holmes canon; 3 Dickens novels and a couple of Sabatini’s; The Lord of the Rings trilogy…
* “Paul Rand’s Annual Festivus Report Is Out: $900 Billion in Government Waste” (Senator Paul Rand) * “2024 — The Year of our Reckoning” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness) * “Planned Parenthood’s Trans Hormone Business Is Booming, Creating Thousands Of New Patients ‘For Life’” (Megan Brock & Kate Anderson, Daily Caller) * “Rogue Agencies Flout Constitution and Undermine Our Republic’s Institutions” (Preston Brashers,…
“The best music of any church in town.” That was a recent description of the music we provide for the Sunday afternoon church service that Vital Signs Ministries conducts for the residents of Aksarben Village Senior Living. And I think it might be an accurate description indeed. For those of you interested in the fairness…
One of the highlights of our Christmas season thus far (remember, today is only the 3rd Day of Christmas) was Tom Kotchka coming by our house for a cup of tea and a brief chat. And in that conversation, we discovered that a few years back Tom had written some scripts designed for dramatic reading,…
* “Dr. Rand Paul Releases 2023 ‘Festivus’ Report on Government Waste” (Office of Senator Rand Paul) * “A judicial insurrection against democracy: The Colorado ruling forbidding Trump from standing for election is a grotesque assault on democratic rights.” (Brendan O’Neill, spiked) * “The revival of an ancient calumny: In response to the genocidal Hamas agenda, churches have turned on its…
A couple of weeks back, an entry in Mission Possible: One-Year Devotional by Tim Tebow emphasized the need to exercise one’s mind…and to do so in a purposeful, careful way that keeps one from being influenced by the ungodly doctrines, temptations, and vanities of the world. What a critically-needed challenge this is for Christians. After all, such…
* “The New Religion of the Left: Nihilism” (Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal) * “The Axis of Disorder: How Russia, Iran, and China Want to Remake the World.” (Michael Mazza, Global Taiwan Institute) * “Feds Sent Nearly $2 Billion To Planned Parenthood And Other Pro-Abortion Groups, Gov’t Report Finds — America’s largest abortion provider raked in over $1.5 billion in…
If a quiet 1/2 hour ever comes along in your hectic holiday schedule, you might enjoy this heartwarming Christmas story I wrote several years ago. In fact, this link takes you to the audio version that KGBI used to play on Christmas morning back in the days when I was broadcasting Vital Signs on the…
One’s Christian witness, when truly enlightened and empowered by the Holy Spirit, always has effects. For God isn’t wasteful and not only does He speak continually to the consciences of men and women through His Word and His creation; he also speaks through the testimony and exemplary lives of the saints. Isaac emphasized that wondrous…
* “Republicans can win on abortion if pro-lifers tell their stories” (Christopher Bedford, Fox News) * “Can Europe Become Western Again?” (Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Caller) * “China’s growing espionage and propaganda threat in the U.S” (Morgan Phillips, Daily Mail) * “Exposed: Meta’s $36 Billion Plot to Reengineer Society and Mark Zuckerberg’s Dangerous Future Plans for Tech Addiction” (Seamus Bruner, Breitbart) * “Pope Francis…
