The Daily Memo | September 16, 2020 | Denying Ourselves
In the fourth century A.D., the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, and Persia were peopled by a race of men who left behind them a strange reputation. They were the first Christian hermits, who abandoned the cities of the pagan world to live in solitude. One of the reasons why they fled from the world […]
The Daily Memo | September 10, 2020 | How Your Life Can Make a Difference
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) is best known for the Nobel Peace Prize. Less well known is the fact that Alfred Nobel also invented dynamite. As well as a chemist, engineer and innovator, he was a weapons’ manufacturer. In 1888, Alfred’s brother Ludvig died. A French newspaper erroneously published Alfred’s obituary. It condemned him for his invention […]
The Daily Memo | September 3, 2020 | As It Was in the Garden
Most of us are painfully aware of how much crime, violence, sin, and deprivation exist in our world today. Traveling back in time and through scripture, we’ve become familiar with a climatic paradise that apparently needed no rain because it was watered by a mist coming up from the ground (Genesis 2:6). There were no […]
The Daily Memo | August 25, 2020 | Coming Soon: The Next Jesus Movement
The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily throughout North America, Europe, and Central America. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks. Some of the fastest-growing US denominations of the late 20th century, such as Calvary Chapel, Hope Chapel Churches, and […]
The Daily Memo | August 18, 2020 | The Good ‘Ole Days
Now five months into the worst pandemic we’ve seen in a hundred years – add a couple of months of daily protest with a few riots thrown in – many of us are asking “what happened to the good ‘ole days?” We remember when the biggest issue to deal with when we got up was […]
The Daily Memo | August 14, 2020 | Few Ever Really Live
One of my all-time favorite books is Wild at Heart written by John Eldredge. Here’s an excerpt. “The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. Sure, you can create a safe life for yourself … and end your days […]