Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste, by P. De Zeeuw, J. Gzn (Inheritance Publications, 1988; translation of Dutch original), 93 pages. This book, though from the same series as the Athanasius book, was better written. The author does a good job in showing how Augustine chased sin and its consequences. I think the story is …
Against the World: The Odyssey of Athanasius, Henry Coray. (Inheritance Publications, 1994), 111 pages The idea of a children’s book on Athanasius, especially one designed to relate the heroism of the man and his stand for orthodoxy, is definitely appealing. However, this book was a disappointment to me. The book is designed for children, but …
Recently my wife was struggling with one of our sons to get him to do his homework. Eventually he had to be placed off to himself with his stack of work to complete. He did finally complete his work, but we discovered that he had mistaken his math assignment doing something like Lesson 73 instead …
With all the movie buzz, The Chronicles of Narnia will be good books to start with. These books are favorites of mine and my boys. We read them all two years ago when my boys were 6, 5, and 3 years old. They absolutely loved them. The writing is excellent (in fact it made it …
There are various common, well entrenched but false notions which inhibit us in sharing the gospel. One is what I call the “poor God syndrome.” We plead with people to give God a chance. We remind them of all God has done for them and ask them how they could be so unkind as to …
Barry Maxwell, a pastor in TX, whose writings I recommended once previously, began a blog, Blind Man’s Fancy, during the time I have been away. As I recommended his devotional musings so I commend his blogging. Barry is a faithful, thoughtful pastor with a gift for writing ad his humility is evident in the title …
I‘ll break the silence of my self-imposed holiday hiatus by pointing you to an excellent sermon I was privileged to hear today. My fellow elder/pastor Lee Tankersley continued the series through 1-2 Samuel today taking up 2 Samuel 9-12. The audio is not up yet but it should soon be available at the church website. …
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Here is the poem that inspired the title for this blog. I was first introduced to it through the writings of Doug Phillips at Vision Forum, specifically the book Poems for Patriarchs which I warmly recommend. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s …