As the CREC celebrated 50 Years at the 2023 Council, a few people gave presentations we have shared with you below. 50 Years of Advice in 20 Minutes | Jack Phelps Through the Looking Glass | Virgil Hurt Persevering | Randy Booth ...
May 29, 2023, Rev. Jack Phelps An American historian once stated that in all of history, no civilization has survived the loss of its faith. This statement is not to be doubted, but it has a corollary. That is, every civilization has a faith. Moreover, every...
A Christmas Homily Virtually every period in human history is marked by a significant event, one that people remember and use to mark a turning point in the lives of men. Let us consider a few of them. The Fall of Adam in the Garden – This plunged mankind into...
We each claimed wisdom as our own But truth astounds all once it’s known Imre Madách The abandonment of the seven deadly sins as a paradigm for understanding the evil that men do has contributed, in the church, to the arrival and predominance of a new...
A Christmas Homily A Bit of History Originally penned by Charles Wesely in 1739. The song did not include the “chorus” at the end, repeating the first line of the song. The first line was slightly different from what we are used to. It proclaimed that the...
On being prepared to instruct children in mature thinking about life in the 21st Century so they will know why and how to reject foolish ideas. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962) Enemies of the Permanent Things, Russell...
