Each morning when I look out across our back deck at home with my cup of coffee, I see so many amazing sights…boats on a canal, a variety of trees, flowers, and grass, the diversity of local wildlife, clouds moving across an ever-changing sky, leaves blowing in the wind, and so much more. Everything outside appears so very alive. There’s movement, changing colors, and even sounds.

From time to time I browse through my personal library and select books to give or throw away…books that are no longer relevant or that could be better used by someone else.

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the
earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is

In 2009, much of the world celebrated the life and legacy of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who popularized the notion of evolution through natural selection. Darwinism has been a belief system for the past 150 years, providing a seemingly convenient way for scientists to explain their observations about life on earth without the need to consider a Creator.

The October 31 sermon by Pastor Chuck Swindoll in Frisco, Texas, highlighted the life and work of Martin Luther, responsible in large part for the Protestant Reformation, of which all evangelicals are inheritors. Luther was convinced that the Roman church had drifted from the Scriptures—and thus into corruption—and that the common people desperately needed the Bible in their own language.