by Peter James | Aug 27, 2024 | Henry Francis Lyte
The Football Association Challenge Cup (commonly called the FA Cup) is the English soccer equivalent of our American Super Bowl. It’s played annually each May in Wembley Stadium before 90,000 frenzied soccer fans. It has been a century-old tradition to sing two...
by Peter James | Aug 26, 2024 | Pectorius of Autun
Food can assume exaggerated importance in our lives. Fasting is one way to bring these appetites under control. People in the Bible fast from food for all sorts of reasons. David fasts for the health of his gravely ill son. Esther fasts before she makes a bold request...
by Peter James | Aug 25, 2024 | Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft (1937-) has been a professor of philosophy for thirty-eight years at Boston College. Among his forty books, he wrote A Prayer for Beginners. It is, as advertised, a simple, direct treatment of prayer for novices. Peter admits, after years of actively...
by Peter James | Aug 24, 2024 | Clementine Liturgy
The Thirty Years War from 1618-1648 was one of the most destructive wars in European history. It started as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics over religious freedom and escalated into a major political power struggle. Not quite what Jesus had in...
by Peter James | Aug 23, 2024 | Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) was raised in a Christian family. His father and grandfather were both pastors. When he was fifteen, he decided to visit every house of worship in Colchester, England, to learn the way of salvation. On Sunday morning, January 6, 1850, he...
