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• Is the Idea of the Centrist Project Realistic?

  By H. David Baer on May 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Evangelizers often run into resistance, and so I’ve noticed not everyone I talk to about the Centrist Project gets excited. “Sorry, but it’s a waste of time. Third parties can’t succeed in America. We’ve got a two party system and… Read More ›

• An Excited Crowd

  By H. David Baer on April 16, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Easter Sunday sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that… Read More ›

• Hearsay or Experience – How Do We Know God?

  By H. David Baer on April 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This  Palm Sunday sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this… Read More ›

• The Fall of Hungary: Viktor Orbán’s Push to Destroy Democracy

  By H. David Baer on April 7, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Demonstrators protesting Lex CEU / Source: CEU webpage Early in April, the Hungarian parliament, tightly controlled by the country’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orbán, passed a law aimed at forcing  the closure of Budapest’s independent and prestigious Central European University…. Read More ›

• One Thing is Needful

  By H. David Baer on March 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  This Lenten Sermon is from 1965. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had… Read More ›

• Why I Joined the Centrist Project

  By H. David Baer on March 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not much of a joiner, especially where politics is concerned, but recently I signed up with something called the Centrist Project. It’s a group that wants to overcome political polarization, which has reached a level they believe harms our… Read More ›

• Herod the Fox

  By H. David Baer on March 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten Sermon is from 1956. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” And he said… Read More ›

• Lenten Reflections – Those Who Accused Him

  By H. David Baer on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten devotion is from 1958. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none,… Read More ›

• The Trial of Jacob

  By H. David Baer on March 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1964. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Jacob Wrestling with the Angel / Alexander Louis Leloir And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of… Read More ›

• “Get Behind Me, Satan”

  By H. David Baer on March 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief… Read More ›