He was a wealthy, influential man—a member of the Sanhedrin with much to lose by being associated with Jesus of Nazareth, who was considered a threat to the tenuous stability of society. Yet, “He gathered up his courage” and went to Pilate to ask for the crucified body of Christ,
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It was a dark and stormy day when my friend Dale Enstrom and I started out to do errands. We were both tired. The night before, we did three hours of music in a teaching concert for the junior and senior high youth of Calvary Chapel, Laguna Creek, in preparation
There are a few significant people in my life who made such an impression on me that I remember the exact moment I first laid eyes on them. Jim Salinas was not one of them. It wasn’t that he was bland; he was a springy, jaunty, compact blonde guy with
Hal Baker sent me these stories written by his father-in-law, master painter Milford Zornes, N.A. Story 1 from 1957 Several years ago I was an instructor at The Old Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. At that time also, as is not too uncommon with artists, I was deeply in
Many years ago I heard this version of the origin of Valentine’s Day. Valentinus was in prison, scheduled to be executed for being a follower of Jesus Christ. The jailer, noticing that Valentinus was an educated man, asked him to teach his blind daughter, Julia. I don’t know what he