History, Real Life and Faith
“There’s joy in serving the King. Haven’t you heard that?” Kristin’s eyes met mine in the high school bathroom mirror. I was a new believer. I hadn’t heard that before. Her mother, however, taught my high school girl’s Bible study. Kristin would know. She spoke those words 44 years ago, and they have stayed with me and echoed throughout my life….
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Have you ever had the opportunity to take a child to a war zone? Biddy Chambers did. So did I. We, however, reached different conclusions about the wisdom of visiting a war zone with a child. My story–the Caribbean My Navy guy served on a fast attack submarine that spent the 1983 fall on a Unitas Run. His submarine “showed…
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I recently savored my friend Latayne Scott’s new novel A Conspiracy of Breath. It provides an interesting answer to the question, “Who wrote the New Testament‘s Book of Hebrews?” Scott believes it may have been a woman named Priscilla–the wife of a man named Aquila. She makes a compelling argument in a beautifully written work of literary fiction. Whether you…
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Kathleen Chambers, Oswald and Biddy’s only child, is the subject of many searches on Google. Of course I know what happened to her. It’s all in my book, Mrs. Oswald Chambers, published in October 2017. The little girl who spent crucial years in a WWI camp served as a major source I turned to frequently while writing the biography. But…
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“How will we choose our fall Bible study?” My co-teacher stopped in the aisle of the Christian book store. “Shouldn’t we pray?” “I assume you have been praying,” I said. She nodded. “Is there a study in particular you want to do?” “I didn’t really get an answer,” she said. “Maybe we should pray again?” I shrugged. “I don’t think it matters….
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Why is My Utmost for His Highest an important book? It’s one of the best-selling devotionals of all time–publishers don’t even know the total number of copies sold. (The most educated guess puts the number at more than 14 million copies.) Many people around the world read My Utmost for His Highest regularly. It tops the list of “Popular Christian Devotionals,”…
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