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By Brad Hicks Who is the wisest person you’ve ever met or read or watched a documentary about? Maybe it’s someone in your family or perhaps a historical military, religious, or political figure. Or maybe it’s a philosopher, educator, psychologist, or economist whose works you’ve read. If you’re like me, you would agree that ourContinue reading “The Wisest People in the World“

By Brad Hicks Delivered on August 10, 2021, via Zoom to a group of Christian church leaders in India, at the invitation of my friend, Edwin Daliya, a native of Mussoorie, India. Edwin heads a missions organization that plants churches throughout northern India. The word “heart” is translated 725 times in the Bible, 576 timesContinue reading “The Heart in Scripture: Heart in Torah (Part 1)”

By Brad Hicks Last week, in Part 1 of our discussion on thankfulness in the scriptures, we pored over the Old Testament and noticed that the word thanks was first used in the Book of Leviticus as it related to the Law of Moses; God commanded that offerings and sacrifices were to be made inContinue reading “Thankfulness in a Self-Absorbed Culture (Part 2)”

By Brad Hicks The word “thank” and all its derivative words — thanks, thanksgiving, thankful, thankfulness, grateful, etc. — as it relates to man’s thankful posture toward God, appears in English translations of the Bible about 150 times. I hope to show today why thankfulness — why having a grateful attitude toward God for allContinue reading “Thankfulness in a self-absorbed culture (Part 1)”

By Brad Hicks The Freedom Riders were remarkable, fearless Americans. They were extraordinary, ordinary people … young people who took the reins of history and wouldn’t let go. — Mark Samels, American Experience executive producer When I did see the young people, first the sit-ins and the courage that they had to have, and thenContinue reading “The fearless Freedom Riders of 1961”

By Brad Hicks In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been. Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it. — Ella Baker, “Mother of theContinue reading “Two daughters of enslaved persons who truly made America great, and the ironic fate of Confederate President Jefferson Davis”

By Brad Hicks What once to me was a badge of honor, the name Evangelical has become an embarrassment. I see no need to call myself an Evangelical any longer. The moniker served its purpose in the mid-20th century through the 1970s, but for the last forty years the label has been culturally and, IContinue reading “American Evangelicals, it’s time to tell a better story”

By Brad Hicks Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he? — Clarence Odbody, ASC, to George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life I stopped praying for Doug this week. Of the five friends of mine who died last week, IContinue reading “Out of the shadowlands, finally Home: The 5 friends I lost in 5 days last week”