Your Books

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them be your acquaintances."

Winston S. Churchill

[HT: G. Grant]

Father Mohr's Famous "Silent Night" Carol

December 11, 1792

Students of history remember that in 1792, King Louis XVI of France went on trial for treason before the Revolutionary Convention that had replaced the French National Assembly. His head would roll the following January. But on December 11, 1792, the same day that the French king faced his cruel judges--a much quieter event took place... (Read more)

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Steve Kragthorpe

I heard Coach Kragthorpe speak while he was the head coach at the University of Louisville. He is a Christian and a wonderful speaker and motivator. His wife has MS. He was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Modesty: Ambition or Conviction?

Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction---where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert---himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt---the Divine Reason. . . . the new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn.

G. K. Chesterton

Covenanter John Nisbet Rejoiced to Be Hanged

December 4, 1681

When John Wycliffe sent his barefoot preachers throughout England in the 14th-century, carrying the Scripture in English, and calling for real heart changes, his message crossed the border into Scotland. There Murdoch Nisbet heard and believed. He acquired one of the rare English-language manuscripts of the Bible. Murdoch's son, grandson and great grandson followed his footsteps of faith. The great-grandson was John Nisbet of Hardhill, who... (Read more)

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