April 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Allies – Cavanaugh

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING 

The Allies, Jack Cavanaugh, 1997.

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The rigid airship, employed so extensively by Germany during the Great War, was perfected soon after the turn of the century by a former Wurttenberg army cavalry officer, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin, who had been inspired by a balloon ascent he had made in the United States on August 19, 1863.


TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Katy Morgan, an American nurse in training, experiences war first hand when a pair of German Zeppelins drop incendiary bombs on London.

LISTEN to an episode about a first hand account of a Zeppelin raid

LISTEN to an episode about The Puritans, Book 1 in this series

 

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April 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Great Zeppelin Raid

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING  

Unpublished Account of the
Great Zeppelin Raid of 1916, Tom Morgan, 1996.  

 

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This article was begun January 31, 1996, at just before 9:00 p.m. At around that time and on that date eighty years before, two German airships were flying South over Shropshire, and although they didn’t know it, they would soon bomb my town, and almost kill my great grandfather, my grandmother and her sister. — Tom Morgan

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Florence Hill and her sister, Ellen, flee a theater performance when a German Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs on the town of Wednesbury, England.

 

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April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

Proof – Cavanaugh

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING 

Proof, Bill Bright & Jack Cavanaugh, 2005. 

 

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 Dr. Bright did not live to see this book published. His wife, Vonette wrote to me, “Bill was so looking forward to this book and so excited about the privilege of working with you. Thank you for adding extra joy toward the end of his life. I know he is rejoicing from heaven.”

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

An 1885 interview between a retired judge and young female news reporter sets the stage for a telling of the great prayer revival that swept across America prior to the Civil War.

 

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March 30, 2011 Leave a Comment

Paradise Lost – Milton

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

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TODAY’S READING
Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1674. 

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What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
— John Milton


TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Two monologues from Satan. The first, having been cast out of heaven, he surveys his new surroundings. The second, he spies on Adam and Eve while they sleep and formulates a plan.

 

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March 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

Beyond the Sacred Page – Cavanaugh

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Jack reads selected passages
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited.


TODAY’S READING 

Beyond the Sacred Page,
Jack Cavanaugh, 2003. 

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It is Easter day and I am rejoicing in our Lord’s resurrection. I am also well into your book, Beyond the Sacred Page. It is excellent! 

— Dr. Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Meg Foxe, the wife of a man passionately pursuing the heretic William Tyndale, encounters the beauty and power of the Tyndale New Testament translation.

 

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