• Handel's Messiah

    Georg Friedrich Händel MESSIAH (1742) A Sacred Oratorio Here is a fantastic performance of Handel’s “Messiah”. This is a very Baroque performance. The soloists are fantastic, and the choir is superb and very fresh! Recorded live in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Friday 3 December 2021. Rowan Pierce, soprano Esther Brazil, mezzo-soprano Ted Black, tenor…

  • American Gospel

    I just saw the documentary “American Gospel: Christ Alone” (2018). It clearly presents the Gospel and shows how for many Americans, they are merely nominal, cultural “Christians” who were raised in churches, read the Bible, even attend Christian schools, yet they never repented and believed the Gospel. They never trusted in Christ Alone. It also…

  • Christian America

    America was founded as a Christian republic! The vast majority of our Founding Fathers were men of sincere and deep faith in Christ. Sadly in recent decades fewer people in America now identify as Christian, and the number of people who are unaffiliated with  no religion has increased to 33%! According to recent polling by…

  • Recollections from Childhood

    A cool breeze blowsOn a fresh Spring day The cicada buzzI feel calm The sun shines brightWarming my skin Robins fly aboveCircling me The heavenly smell of tulipsWafts through the air A lone bumble beeBuzzes near my head I feel the cool grassBeneath my feet I taste honeysuckleMild and sweet Cars rumble pastTheir engines humming…

  • Bach's Coffee Cantata

    This is a performance of Bach’s secular cantata Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht / Keep quiet, don’t chatter. Which is known popularly as the “Kaffeekantate” (Coffee Cantata).  BWV 211 This performance was brought to my attention by my dear, longtime friend Professor Christina Alexandris in Athens, Greece. This work is more similar to an Italian comic…

  • Bach's St. Matthew Passion

      J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion) Passion in 2 Parts – BWV 244 Bach composed this work in Leipzig during 1727 for the Good Friday vesper services. The Choir of King’s College Chapel Cambridge The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge  (Soprano in ripieno) Soloists: Evangelist: Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor) Jesus: Michael George (Bass) Emma Kirkby…

  • The Immaculate Conception of Mary Debunked

    Bernadette Soubirous, a young teenager in France in the 19th century, reportedly experienced 18 visions of the Blessed Mother Mary. She appeared to Bernadette in a grotto near Lourdes. In one of these visions she exclaimed, “I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION!” From Wikipedia: The Marian Apparitions at Lourdes were reported in 1858 by Bernadette Soubirous,…

  • Scrooge 1935

    Here we see the opening credits at the commencement of the story in the book: “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, and each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses…

  • Christmas Reminiscing

    I would like to wish all my readers a  very happy, blessed, and merry Christmas! I know some Christians believe only Biblical holidays should be observed – those who follow the regulative principle of worship, which only allows that which Scripture explicitly allows. I follow the normative principle of worship. I believe we can do…

  • Doomsday Glacier

    The ominously named Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica is at serious risk of total collapse within the next 3 years. The Thwaites Glacier, otherwise known as the Doomsday Glacier, is approximately the size of Florida or Great Britain! It is the widest glacier on Earth, spanning roughly 80 miles (120 kilometers) and extending down between 2,600-3,900…