Chase A. Thompson
Writer, Pastor, Podcaster
Vintage Christmas Reflections #7 – Nate Saint: May We Who Know Christ Hear the Cry of the Damned.
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 the Huaorani people...
Top Ten Best Christmas Songs + Videos and Lyrics. #1-5 (Plus One Bonus)
A couple of days ago, I posted part one of this list, Top Ten Best Christmas Songs (6-10 - CLICK HERE) and today it is time for the top FIVE best Christmas songs. Before I get to them, here are the qualifications for the over all list: Some qualifications for this...
Top Ten Best Christmas Songs + Videos and Lyrics. #6-10 (Plus One Bonus)
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...
Vintage Christmas Reflections #6: David Brainerd’s Tragic Romance and the (mini) Christmas Revival of 1745
David Brainerd was a colonial American missionary to native Americans that lived from 1718-1747. Though he died at a very young age (29), he had a tremendous ministry, and was mightily used of God to carry the Gospel to multiple native Americans. His personal diary,...
Quickhits: C.S. Lewis on Marriage – Being in Love vs. The “Quiet” Love that Actually Sustains Marriage
Here are some great insights from "Mere Christianity," in which C.S. Lewis writes about the kind of googly-eyed, fiery "falling in love," that is characteristic of new couples vs. the kind of love (A quieter love) which sustains relationships that last long term. Read...
Vintage Christmas Reflections #5: Ambrose (340-397 AD) on The Virgin Birth of Jesus and His Trinity Relationship With God The Father.
Ambrose of Milan was an Italian government official, [reluctant] bishop, preacher, writer, hymn composer and champion of orthodoxy (against Arius, and others) that lived from 340-397 A. D.) An interesting figure, Ambrose, was made a Bishop of the church by popular...
Vintage Christmas Reflections #4: Charles Spurgeon on Approaching God in Prayer.
Here's a great Christmas-themed illustration from Spurgeon on prayer. I've nothing that would substantively add to the metaphor here, so I'll just quote it, and add a couple of pertinent Scripture passages: I HAVE heard that in the old times in England, on Christmas...
Quickhitters: If You Died Tonight, Would You Go to Heaven? (Featuring Charles Spurgeon)
Recently on this site, we've taken a look at the origins of a couple of (now-trite) Christian expressions: "Thoughts and prayers," and "Love the sinner, hate the sin." Below, you'll find a very interesting quote from Charles Spurgeon that is one of the earliest uses...
Vintage Christmas Reflections #3: C.S. Lewis and his “Thoughts and Prayers.”
Have you ever wondered where the now banal expression "thoughts and prayers" originated? I haven't either, but while reading C.S. Lewis this afternoon, I was quite surprised (and a little disappointed) to discover the great literary master himself using the expression...