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I delivered the following remarks at my maternal grandmother’s funeral three years ago today. I made impromptu additions at the end of this text; I don’t have an exact record of those remarks but have inserted what I recall at the bottom of this post. ————————- What shall we say then? Shall we continue in [...]

“Ten Shekels and a Shirt” by Paris Reidhead. Playing time = 51:15. Size = 5.86 MB. Listen. This now-famous sermon was preached in the mid-1960′s by the Rev. Paris Reidhead, an Assemblies of God pastor. The text of the sermon is taken from Judges 17-18. I first heard this sermon when I was in college. [...]

Tim Bayly pegs Tony Campolo (of “You can’t be a Christian and drive a BMW” infamy) for denying God’s omnipotence.

General Douglas MacArthur left us many words of serious thought. Among them were these about the limitation of governmental power (from his pictorial autobiography Duty, Honor, Country, page 210): There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big brother [...]