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The Truth Is Like A Good Steak. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Rod Dreher’s book “Live Not by Lies.” Do we hold our pastors to a specific evangelical standard for preaching and ministry? What damage is done to churches whose members don’t have a firm theological and moral grounding in what’s good, right, and true?

Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Edith Cavell, Anglican nurse and martyr.

ארץ - O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. PSALM 104:24

The sweet psalmist of Israel.

מזרח - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. PSALM 103:11–12

Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag for a question about underrated figures in church history.

יסר - Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. PSALM 94:12–13

Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Jonathan Udo Ekong and Christianity in Nigeria.

Pastor Hodel Teaches On

Lies Are Like Hotdogs. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Rod Dreher’s “Live Not by Lies.” What harm is done to the churches by abandoning the Truth, and what about a society the lives by lies?

Today on the Almanac, we remember Colonial Missionary, David Brainerd.

אב - He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’ And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. PSALM 89:26–27