by chaseathompson | Jan 16, 2017 | Uncategorized |
I am writing this from Birmingham, Alabama on the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – I have lived all of my life in and around Birmingham, the site of many of the great feats and victories of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Struggle. I grew up in this city,...
by chaseathompson | Dec 19, 2016 | Christmas, Uncategorized |
January 8, 1956 is a day that will live in famy – or whatever the actual opposite of ‘infamy’ is. On that day, five Christian missionaries and heroes, Roger Youderian, Nate Saint, Ed McCulley, Jim Elliot and Peter Fleming, died at the spear-tips of...
by chaseathompson | Dec 14, 2016 | Christmas, Uncategorized |
Over the years, I have become something of a Christmas music aficionado, and have planned to do a list like this for quite some time, but never actually got around it. I’ve “collected” Christmas music for years, and currently have over 1000 different songs, some...
by chaseathompson | Nov 30, 2016 | Quickhits, Uncategorized |
I found the below anecdote from the autobiography of George Muller to be quite interesting. He recounts the first time he ever preached, and how he had no idea how to prepare a sermon, so he borrowed another preacher’s sermon and MEMORIZED the whole thing. How...
by chaseathompson | Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized |
In celebration of Thanksgiving Day, here are some great quotes and thoughts from a a variety of great writers. Happy Thanksgiving to you! “Do you think, O Christian, that you can measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought you—justification,...
by chaseathompson | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized |
53 years ago today (November 1963), the world lost United States President John F. Kennedy and two Oxford trained writers: Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World) and Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis. Internet pundits, chiefly myself, have speculated that this day is the...
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