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Charles Coulson was 38 when he joined the Nixon white house as a special counsel. He became known as someone who would do anything and everything to advance his side.  Nixon himself said that he made him the “political point man” for “imagintive dirty tricks.” That’s how he wound up in prison after the fallout […]

Have you ever been to Hitchita Oklahoma?  You probably haven’t.  I never had when a friend invited me to preach my first real sermon there.  So we drove out to Hitchita.  We drove, and drove, and drove.  It sits right in between Grayson and Elm Grove if that helps.  If that doesn’t it’s right between […]

On New Years Eve 1961 WA Criswell stood up to preach.  That in itself wasn’t unusual. Criswell served as pastor of FBC Dallas for 50 years, preaching thousands of sermons both there and all over the world. But on this night he started preaching about 7:30 pm and preached all through the night until New […]

Beginning on September 7, 1940, and for a total of 57 consecutive nights, London was bombed.  What came to be called the Blitz caused lots of damage in London and surrounding areas.  During World War 2 the Luftwaffe Air Forces of Germany were wreaking havoc on the allied forces, and US and others were desperate […]

If you travel to the Himalayas, way north in India, you’ll find the Gangotri Glacier. It’s one of the larges in the Himalayas. It’s solid ice, 19 miles long and almost 2 miles wide.  The end of that glacier is a place called Gomukh. From there the river Bhagirathi flows, and as it flows it’s […]

Luke 3:15-22 Nobody had ever seen anyone like him.  They didn’t know what to do with him.  Some saw him as a just a novel curiosity.  Something to be amused at. Others just thought him crazy.  Who would talk like that, eat like that, dress like that?  Most people go out of their way to […]