Category: Roger Harned – Writing

  • Paul’s Letters to Churches he Loved

    From time to time Talk of Jesus .com shares sermons from other media which may help connect our current series. Faith, Hope, Love (Part 1 of 2) https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/sermon/faith-hope-love Listen to this helpful overview of the same journey of the Apostle Paul we have outlined in ACTS of the Apostles. Soon we’ll take a look at…

  • a study in LIGHT – Truth for Life

    Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Gospel of John 8:12 ESV TalkofJESUS.com recommends witness from other sites from time to time. Today’s Good News for you with ears to hear is from Truth…

  • Ghosts of Christmas’ Past

    We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…

  • Recovering Christ at Christmastime

    https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts/things-unseen-with-sinclair-ferguson/recovering-christ-at-christmastime We should not be surprised that Jesus isn’t the center of attention at Christmas if He is absent from our thoughts throughout the year. Today, Sinclair Ferguson considers the need to refocus our affections on Christ. 5 min 25 sec – link includes transcript I found this particularly encouraging this morning after a hectic…

  • Thanks-taking feasts of C.E. humankind

    A BIG meal of little thanks in a long season of thanklessness. Giving Thanks to the LORD O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Chronicles 16: KJV – v.34 16:34 הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה We know the concept well — yāḏâ Yᵊhōvâ, from the Hebrew. This instance…

  • Bill Harned – 100 years ago in Smalltown, America

    Bill Harned, my dad as I remember him Bill Harned had been the dad in the 1960’s with his Kodak 8mm movies of everyone else in our family then later endless slide shows and even a poster-board chart of our family tree. I remember this photo of him in his new uniform after his promotion…