Gettysburg National Park

I was at Gettysburg the other day. I had not been there in about 20 years. It is an incredibly moving part of the American landscape. Warren Wiersbe told me, “It was the greatest slaughter of teenagers in American history.” Very true. Some 53,000 men and...

12 Years A Slave

I have finally gotten around to reading the book “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northrup. I have only seen snippets of the movie on YouTube…now I know why it earned an Oscar. The book is mighty compelling. It is a tale of horror and survival. Solomon...

The Best Thing That Happened at the Akron Marathon

The other day I ran in the Akron Marathon. I ran the half (13.1 miles); my son ran the full (26.2 miles). It was tougher than usual because of the heat. Twenty thousand people ran in one of the most well-run events I have ever been a part of. So many hundreds and...

ISIS in the Philippines

The Philippines is the only country in Asia in which the vast majority professes belief in the Christian faith. However, their is a sizable minority of Muslims, living primarily on the southern island of Mindanao. The Muslims there far outnumber the Christians, and...

Antifa and Fascism

If you could sit down with someone from Antifa and ask them “What is fascism? What, historically speaking, has fascism believed for the last 100 years?”, what would they say? As I have been scanning the videos of the numerous riots in which the Antifa are...