Appealing for Justice Towards Persecuted Christians

“Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are badly treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.” (Hebrews 13:3) In the next couple of days, Claire and I will be sending letters (like the one I’ve posted below) to political leaders and ambassadors of some of the countries who…

Still “Swinging” After 13 Years

Well, we are certainly into the “swing” this month as we begin our 14th year of “When Swing Was King” shows to area senior living facilities. We are blessed beyond description at the fact that the presentations are more popular than ever. And our comeback from the covid hysteria seems pretty well complete with our…

The Top 5 (January 13)

* “What more proof do you want that abortion is Satanic?” (Michael Cook, Mercator) * “Congress must stop terrorists who keep coming in through Biden’s broken border” (John Kennedy, New York Post) * “A Culture in Collapse” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness) * “Inspection of abortion clinics proves beyond a shadow of a doubt they cannot police themselves” (Maria V. Gallagher, NRL News)…

The Top 5 (January 6)

* “The unholy alliance between wokeism and barbarism: After 2023, surely no one will deny that Western civilisation is under threat from without and within.” (Brendan O’Neill, spiked!) * “Trafficking, Terrorism, and Trauma: Speaker Johnson Describes What Republicans Saw at the Border” (Ben Johnson, Washington Stand) * “The Global Empire of Palestine: The Palestinians have something better than a state….

The Reading Year in Review

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…

The Top 5 (December 30)

* “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 in Town”

“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…

A Shepherd on Christmas Night

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,…

Top 5 (December 23)

* “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…

Exercising an Unstained Mind: A Yuletide Consideration

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…

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