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  • Christmastime Again

    December 22nd, 200901:05 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    It's Christmastime again. I can't believe that I've been saved for almost 40 years now and have been able to be part of so many real Christmases. It wasn't always so. As a young man who refused to believe in such nonsense such as a god that I couldn't see, feel, or touch, Christmas remained simply a time of tinsel, pretty lights, Thomas Kincaid ...

  • Dirty Clothes

    December 17th, 200911:33 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
    I have been to a lot of Revival prayer meetings lately.  They seem to be springing up more in these last 5 years than in the previous 20.  Perhaps that's because the need is increasing as the church world seems to be drifting more and more toward a social Gospel that is more consumer-friendly than abrasive.  The harshness of messages...

  • G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy Is Still in Tune With Our Times

    December 14th, 200910:53 AM ET
    By Anthony Horvath
    G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton wrote his spiritual autobiography, Orthodoxy, in 1908.  The amazing thing is how relevant his arguments and insights are today. I think there is an unfortunate tendency in our society to always be focusing on the 'new.'  The newer truth is always to be preferred over the older, even if this flies in the ...

  • Going down to the Chambers of Death

    December 07th, 200911:27 AM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou are my sister; and call understanding my kinswoman: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words."  ...
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