History, Real Life and Faith
Imagine, elephants played a role in Britain during World War I. At the start of the war, the British army had 25,000 horses that were used for everything. The leaders quickly estimated they’d need another 500,00 horses for the army. To that end, horses were requisitioned all over the country. Rural areas like Sussex and Surrey on the southern coast, were…
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The book and movie War Horse imortalized World War I horses. A tear-jerker of a film, it told the story of a beautiful stallion raised in the British countryside and requisitioned for war. The title character, Joey, changed hands with numerous people who appreciated him over the course of the war and when it ended . . . you’ll have to see or…
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Wars invariably involve not just nations, cities, towns, and people, but animals as well. World War I was no exception, and over the next few weeks I’m going to write about a variety of animals and their involvement in the war. Owing to the movie War Horse, many are familiar with the torturous events of horses and the trenches. Horses…
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For all of you who have trouble understanding the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest, there’s a guide out there to help. Dr. Jed and Dr. Cecilie Macosko have written A Daily Companion to My Utmost for His Highest, published by Discovery House in fall 2014. I wrote about the impetus for the book in Part I. Today’s post,…
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My Utmost for His Highest has long been a challenge for some readers to understand, and for that reason Discovery House published a contemporary guide in fall 2014. Painstakingly written by Dr. Jed Macosko and Dr. Cecilie Macosko, A Daily Companion to My Utmost for His Highest is the result of years of reading and studying Oswald Chamber’s devotional first published…
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I’m a writer, not a computer programmer. This is my attempt to describe recent adventures I’ve had with Spell Check. The problem began a few weeks ago when I sent my most recent manuscript, the one I’ve been slaving over this PC for two years writing, to my agent to read. She worked on it using track changes via “Pages”…
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