This past year has been not just the hardest, but the slowest of my life. I wake earlier than I wish, and lie awake at night while wanting to sleep. The things I once looked forward to no longer appeal. Isn’t half the blessing of a blessing having someone with whom to share it?  ... Continue Reading

(Frank) Schaeffer’s image of Jesus ignores where he says: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6), or declares “the way is narrow that leads to life” (Matthew 7:14)   Frank Schaeffer, the son of well known evangelical missionaries and founders of... Continue Reading

Doomsdayers who followed the Mayan calendar said the world would end with a bang on Dec. 21.  Some economists say the economy would crash with a bang if we go over the fiscal cliff.  Lots of conservatives have said that America would end as we know it if Barack Obama got re-elected president.  God promised... Continue Reading

People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.  The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note:  Our thanks to Marvin Padgett for passing this greeting on for the readers of The Aquila Report     For centuries Christians have lived with the hope and expectation of Christ’s eventual reign on earth. They expressed their view and faith publically, grounded on Scripture as it is read each Sunday of the... Continue Reading

Many years ago, my wife convinced me that we needed to find some personal way to give at Christmas…of getting our children personally involved, in the exercise of giving…we found Miss Edith…an elderly woman who has outlived her family. Her brothers are all deceased; her sisters are all deceased. She has no children. She has... Continue Reading

This Christmas Eve, her parents will likely stay home and watch or listen to Christian broadcasting, (the Schuler’s daughter) said. They don’t plan to attend services at the Crystal Cathedral.     The Rev. Robert H. Schuller filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling in a case that pits the well-known religious leader against the Crystal... Continue Reading

“Ana loved her God, loved to read the Bible, and loved to sing and dance as acts of worship. We ask that you pray for the legions of people who are left behind to cherish memories of her.”   Ana and Isaiah attended Linden Christian School in Winnipeg.   The funerals have begun. On Monday, the... Continue Reading

Ana Grace Márquez-Greene was one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012. Ana and her family had recently moved to the US. Her mother, Nelba, asked that this video, of Ana singing “Come, Thou Almighty King” accompanied on the piano by her brother, “Be shared... Continue Reading

Thomas R. Patete, 71, longtime Executive Director of Great Commission Publications (GCP), went to be with the Lord on December 14, 2012. Patete, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of America, served Christ’s church in a number of pastorates and through his position at GCP for 34 years.     Tom Patete was six... Continue Reading