James Bonham was a young lawyer from South Carolina. He had only been in Texas for three months when he volunteered to fight at the Alamo. And you know the Alamo. It is a small fort near the Guadalupe River in San Antonio, Texas. On February 23, 1836, as General Santa Anna and his 2,000 Mexican troops gathered, the 182 brave men…
On June 14, 1981, the Twin Cities was hit by an F-3 Tornado. Wind speeds reached up to 160 miles an hour, and it traveled a total of 15 miles in the Twin Cities metro region. About 83 people were hurt, and tragically, one person was killed. Depending on where you live in the Twin Cities, this famous Tornado has a different…
The other day for bedtime, I grabbed the Veggie Tales Bible from the shelf to read a story to Mia before bed. We hadn’t read this before, and so I looked at the table of contents for a story. I saw the story of Esther and was excited for that because it normally isn’t in a children’s Bible. And so I told…
For the last six months, I have read about a work of Richard Wurmbrand a month. I find his story and life fascinating. Wurmbrand was a Lutheran pastor in Romania during the communist occupation, and was imprisoned for a total of 14 years. He later founded the organization called The Voice of the Martyrs. In his book, If Prison Walls Could Speak,…
A few weeks ago, as Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowd asked, “Who is this?” Who is this? It’s the most important question that we can ever ask, and Advent gives us the answer. Who is this? The crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.” To them, Jesus was a teacher and miracle worker Who came from backwater Galilee. That isn’t too…
Revelation 7:9–17 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and…