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My story about God’s faithfulness in my life.

My birth on August 1, 1961, two months early, did not go well. The part of my brain that controls motor function was deprived of oxygen. Only three pounds and 11 ounces, I beat the odds and survived. But for the rest of my life I would carry the burden of cerebral palsy. 

“Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children.”

― J.C. Ryle

Sometimes you can do everything right and things still turn out wrong. That’s life.

What’s right for someone else might not be right for you. And that’s okay.

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

— C.S. Lewis

Spiritual ground is gained only by going uphill.

Stan and Doug take a (mostly) nonpolitical look at J.D. Vance’s family memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Dogs, Cats, and Hillbillies, Oh My!

Episode · Books & Bonhomie with Stan and Doug · Stan and Doug take a (mostly) nonpolitical look at J.D. Vance’s family memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

For a day in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Sometimes we’re called to respond to hate with love, and that’s hard. Other times we’re called not to respond at all, and that’s harder.

Don’t say “past history.” By its very definition….