Of Ice and Irish Tenors **Updated**

It’s deceptively clear and sunny in Milwaukee this Friday afternoon. It’s bitterly cold, but the sun is shining and the sky is very blue. Tomorrow will be a very different matter. An ice storm is in the forecast. Stores are busy with people getting in bread and milk in case the worst happens and the [...]

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In the Valley He Restores My Soul

I couldn’t resist sharing one more photo with you sent by Robert H. in England after our program on Mary Jones today. This is the valley in Wales where Mary Jones’ cottage was, just to the right of the farm buildings in the upper right of the photo. You can see the kind of country [...]

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Mary Jones Cottage

A Crosstalk listener in England today sent me some photos of the monument that stands in the ruins of Mary Jones’ cottage in Wales. That’s the monument on the left. If you don’t know who Mary Jones is, you’ll have to listen to the archived Crosstalk from today! Thank you, Robert in England for those [...]

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What Is Your Bible Worth To You?

Today on Crosstalk my guest will be my dear friend in the Lord, Sherry Goodwin. She will be telling the amazing true story of a young girl named Mary Jones. What this Welsh girl did because of her love for the Scriptures ended up impacting a world for the Lord. This is a Crosstalk that [...]

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Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
All the world is God’s own field, fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares [...]

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Love Beautifies

There’s a vacant house for sale at the bottom of the hill in our subdivision. It doesn’t look as forlorn as this abandoned house in the photo, but every month that goes by without somebody to care for it, it deteriorates just a little bit more. The house has been on the market for over [...]

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Jesus, the Crucified Pleads for Me

An English reader sent this hymn text to me today, and I thought I would share it with you.
Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me,
while he is nailed to the shameful tree,
scorned and forsaken, derided and cursed,
see how his enemies do their worst!
Yet, in the midst of the torture and shame,
Jesus, the Crucified, breathes my name:
wonder [...]

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The Happiness of Drawing Near to God by Thomas Watson

Psalm lxxiii. 28. But it is good for me to draw near to God
This psalm is no less elegant than sacred; it is calculated for the meridian of God’s church in all times; but it is especially fit for the godly to meditate upon in times of calamity. It is entitled a psalm of Asaplt. [...]

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All For Jesus

I discovered an old recording yesterday of John Stainer’s oratorio, The Crucifixion. The recording was on a mono LP record, but fortunately, we still have a turntable for my husband’s collection of old classics on vinyl. Although it has fallen into obscurity today, The Crucifixion was widely appreciated in its day. I found the music [...]

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Robert Philip on Communion With God

“The highest human honor is access to the king.  Even a single interview with the monarch is highly coveted, and if obtained never forgotten.  How much more should access to the ‘King Eternal, Immortal, and Invisible’, be prized and improved. But alas, it is not so in general.  We are naturally averse to ‘draw nigh [...]

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