by Peter James | Aug 21, 2024 | Matt Mayer/Matt Redman
When our children were young, they loved watching Sesame Street. True confession: I enjoyed watching it with them. The puppets are simply the best. Forgetful Jones, dressed in cowboy attire with his girlfriend Clementine, were among my favorites. True to his name,...
by Peter James | Aug 20, 2024 | Dorothy Day
Doubt gets a bad rap in church circles. To my way of thinking, unbelief is the antithesis of faith, not doubt. Doubt is somewhere in the middle, suspended halfway between belief and unbelief. Doubt can go either way. There are two kinds of doubt in Scripture. There is...
by Peter James | Aug 19, 2024 | Robert Boyd Munger
It may be the most widely distributed sermon of the twentieth century. Robert Boyd Munger (1911-2001) first preached his “My Heart–Christ’s Home” sermon at the Berkeley Presbyterian Church in California in 1949. It was published a few years...
by Peter James | Aug 18, 2024 | Harry D. Clarke
Let me take you back to an evangelistic meeting in the early 1920s at Trinity Evangelical Church in Shamokin, Pennsylvania (yep, it’s an actual town). A man who, in the opinion of those present at the meeting, “was under the influence of alcohol”...
by Peter James | Aug 17, 2024 | Augustine of Hippo
George MacDonald wrote a prayer for every day of the year in Diary of an Old Soul in 1880. His entry for July 16th begins: “The house is not for me—it is for him. His royal thoughts require many a stair, Many a tower, many an outlook fair Of which I have no thought.”...
