Category: Year End Giving
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Coffee with John
Let’s face it, we’re all caffeinated Christians. Well, maybe you aren’t, but everyone else with a cup of coffee nearby is. I even woke up with an acid stomach this morning, and still, the first thing in my mouth was a sip of Starbucks French Roast. That’s because I’m a creature of habit and I…
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Grace Against Time campaign
The newly remastered album, Cold Cathedral, is yours free when participating in our Grace Against Time campaign today. The album is a time-related but out of print rendition of Contemporary Christian Music’s first official album and John Fischer’s first recorded music. While containing John’s first songs, his prophetic message remains as relevant today as it was then … as you will…
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Grace against time
If you have been following our end-of-the-year emails, you have no doubt become familiar with the contradictions and complications surrounding the nefarious and dastardly but suave Captain Hook from the classic story of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. The many adaptations on stage and screen are a tribute to the entertaining staying power of…
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Hook often feels alone.
Captain Hook often feels alone. … especially when he is around his crew. He feels isolated and cut off from them, culturally and intellectually. He has very few friends except for Smee, his “number 2 man,” who is friendly and genial.  Hook views Smee as his confidant, sharing personal thoughts with him which is not common…
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Hook conflicted
Captain Hook is a complicated, conflicted character. He is hot tempered and treats his crew like dogs. He is menacing and sinister, and yet he is polite, and always exhibits elegant diction and signs of his good breeding. Hook is not an entirely unheroic character and does strive to act nobly throughout his ferocious acts. Hook…
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Captain Hook is a thin man with curly, black hair … that drapes over his shoulders, a large hooked nose, a thin black mustache that angles upward sharply, and a large chin. He wears an orange sash over his right shoulder that holds his sword scabbard at his left hip and a large crimson hat with…
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Tock the Croc
Hook is terrified of Tock the Croc. Maybe more than anything. For him, Tock represents the passage of time. He is afraid Tock’s clock will run down and stop ticking. Then, Hook fears, Tock will sneak up and get him. We understand this fear. Even with a solid faith in Christ and a real hope…
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Time & Eternity
Captain Hook, that nefarious helmsman of the Jolly Roger, has but two fears. He fears a crocodile with a clock inside of it, and the boy who cut off and threw his hand to that selfsame crocodile who now wants to eat the rest of him. For this, and the next 40 hours — the last 40…