Tag: history
Mary, Did You Know?
It’s interesting: the process of aging, getting older, usually means that when you hear the same stories that you’ve heard before, sometimes you discover something that you hadn’t noticed before. Life has given you a different perspective from when you heard the story originally. Nowhere else, for me at least, has this held true than the Christmas story. By age 30 – if you’ve been a life-long Christian like I am – the story gets very familiar. → Read more...
Being Part of History is About Faith
This morning I just saw a Modern Marvels documentary on the great story of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was built during the crushing Great Depression and the local government didn’t have money to fund the project. So what did they do? They went around canvassing the San Francisco neighborhoods and asked if people would consider getting a lien against their properties to help fund this project. And they did en masse. On November 4, 1930 voters within the district went to the polls and put their homes, farms, and business properties up for collateral to support a $35 million bond issue to finance the bridge. → Read more...
Remember the Future
History. For most people, it’s a topic that’s akin to watching paint dry: tedious, boring, and ultimately pointless. “Why should I learn about George Washington crossing the Delaware or about a Macedonian named Alexander the Great who lived close to 2,400 years ago?” For most of us, we feel anonymous, insulated and not part of the history-making process. We’re not a Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln. For that matter, we’re not even close to or work in places where “history” is made, like the White House. → Read more...
Don’t Forget (Parentally), Pt. IV
July 11, 2013
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Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. – Deuteronomy 32:7 Part I Part II Part III Over the past few weeks, I’ve used Deuteronomy to help guide our thinking about how important it is for us to teach our contemporaries and the generations that come after us about the reality, truthfulness and wonder of God and the story He’s written about Himself and His Creation. → Read more...
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