Church History

How And Why To ‘Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem’

By bearclifton|2023-10-20T12:44:47+00:00October 20th, 2023|

My church is calling its people to a season of prayer for Israel. We’d like to begin by encouraging focused [...]

By bearclifton|2023-07-03T14:10:29+00:00July 3rd, 2023|

History is one of those things that people either love or hate. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. [...]

By bearclifton|2022-12-02T17:18:47+00:00December 2nd, 2022|

While Advent is not "in the Bible" (Christians didn't start observing it formally for several centuries after Christ), it is [...]

By bearclifton|2022-06-27T18:13:52+00:00June 27th, 2022|

One of the earliest books I read in college back in the 1980s, as a newly revived follower of Christ, [...]

By bearclifton|2019-02-19T22:13:21+00:00January 19th, 2019|

The Faith-Faltering Film Of Martin Scorsese This article is from 2017 but reading it periodically helps me keep my bearings [...]