Jesus, the Pretext — 1/31/12
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Contemporary man finds it fashionable to ask “What would Jesus do?” This catchphrase finds its source in the subtitle of Charles Sheldon’s 1897 novel In His Steps. I have never read the book, and cannot comment on it. I understand Sheldon was a socialist who, as a professing Christian, proclaimed the social gospel. The more […]
Read full post...Imitating the Greatest Father of Them All (an article from 2010)
Monday, April 25th, 2011Years ago guitar great Chet Atkins wrote a song wherein he looked back with fondness on his father’s love and care. In the song he relates how as a boy he put on his father’s hat, fixed the brim, and pretended to be him. In adulthood the desire to be like his father remained. I […]
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