by Don Freeman | Nov 5, 2024 | Devotional
Imagine with me – you have a generous brother who knows you have an old beater of a car which is giving you plenty of headaches. He surprises you with a brand-new car and promises to pay all your insurance premiums. After reflection, you decide to keep his...
by Don Freeman | Oct 29, 2024 | Devotional
The following prayer, commonly attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi, was most likely a prayer from the early 20th Century, by Father Bouquerel, and published in the French Catholic magazine, La Clochette. It’s updated here, this time by yours truly, as a prayer...
by Don Freeman | Oct 10, 2024 | Devotional
“In Him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28, NIV. Intriguing statement, don’t you think? Besides good lyrics for a song, what are we to understand from it? What was Luke’s intent in writing this? Had he come to understand something of critical...
by Don Freeman | Sep 26, 2024 | Devotional
In a pamphlet titled, ‘American Crisis,’ written in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: ‘These are the days that try men’s souls . . .’ Today, in England, France, as well as the US, these words reflect the mood of close to 500 million people. Serious consequences hang in the...
by Don Freeman | Sep 19, 2024 | Devotional
On Sunday, October 30, 1938, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in New York aired, on Orson Welles’ radio show, The Mercury Theater on the Air, a dramatic reading, with sound effects, of ‘The War of the Worlds’ (based on H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel of the same name).The...
