My Testimony
It was August 4, 2000, as I lay on an operating table having emergency double bypass heart surgery. At age 50, nearly 23 years of Marlboros and Coors had caught up with me because the artery cardiologists call “the widowmaker” was 90 percent blocked when they opened my chest. “You are the 50-year-old guy in…
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June 19, 1865, was the day slaves in Texas first heard about President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier and the fact they were thus free, precious news that was brought to them by Union Major-General Gordon Granger. Americans celebrate this day as the federal holiday of “Juneteenth,” the informal contraction…
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UPDATE: A number of readers have commented that the second video in this post of “Amazing Grace” is not sung by Joni Mitchell but is in fact by Judy Collins. As you can see from the accompanying screenshot, the version I posted here is labelled as being sung by Joni Mitchell. I have to admit,…
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Consider Paul the Apostle. In a work in which numerous characters stand out — Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Samson, Gideon, among many others — his name, exceeded only by that of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, rises above all the others. Two millennia after his four missionary journeys had spread Christianity far and wide in…
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There are mountains of evidence — historical, scientific, medical, archeological, literary, logical, philosophical and more — that point to Jesus Christ as God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As the Gospel of John puts it in the first five verses of its opening chapter: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…
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There are a thousand ways to approach a conversation about Jesus Christ, but in the final analysis, it all comes down to one crucial question — Why was His grave empty on the third day after His crucifixion and burial? The answer of the Gospels is, of course, that, just as He predicted before the…
Read MoreUnless you’ve been asleep for the past several decades, you have heard it said many times, in many ways and in many places that faith, especially Christian faith, is based on blind acceptance, as opposed to secular, materialistic science, which is based on evidence and logic. Like so much else in the conventional wisdom of…
Read MoreIf your boss called you into his or her office today and told you that, since nothing else matters as much as winning the allegiance of voters, you must sell all of your possessions, say goodbye to your friends and family, and focus your every ounce of strength and waking hour on the campaign until…
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If you work on Capitol Hill, you and I likely have a great deal in common. You love this country and want to make it better. You are passionate about politics, the campaign trail and the legislative process. You worry about the future, of America and of you and your loved ones. You probably grew…
Read MoreBill Walton graciously invited me to come on his show recently and we talked for 25 great minutes about why Hill aides are among the least well-known, but most influential groups in the nation’s capital, Christian apologetics, HillFaith, journalism, and much more. These two graphs from my response to Bill’s opening question set the tone…
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