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OK, so it’s a silly title, but I just like the alliteration. So, what is this all about? It’s about the fact that there is no way to distinguish a poodle from a wolf!
I’m Not Joking
This is not a joke. What we all take for granted as enormous physiological distinctions, clearly visible to our eyes, [...]

Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, was born on November 13 in Togaste, North Africa, in AD 354.
His father, Patricius was burgess of the town and a pagan, which set young Augustine toward a self-indulgent lifestyle. However his mother, Monica, was a Christian who devoted herself to prayer for both her husband and son. In years [...]

Richard Baxter was born on November 12, in 1615. The place was Shropshire, England.
Born to parents who had little regard for education, Baxter was largely self-educated, suffered with various bodily infirmities, and knew the reality of persecution in his lifetime … but nevertheless he was to become “one of the foremost Puritan spokesmen within the [...]

Jesus Christ advised that we are either under the power of God or Mammon. Since many people in our culture are not worshippers of God it is safe to assume that they worship Mammon. If many people in our culture worship Mammon then we can assume that many aspects of our culture are under the [...]

St Martin of Tours Day is celebrated in many churches on November 11, “possibly the anniversary of his funeral” (The Spreading Flame, by F.F. Bruce, pages 350-351).
This biographer assures us that St Martin “belonged to the true evangelical succession” (ibid, page 350).
He was born in Hungary about AD 317 to pagan parents. His father was [...]

Henry Morton Stanley said his famous words “Dr Livingstone, I presume!” on November 10, 1871, in the heart of Africa, at Ujiji. The meeting is recorded in Stanley’s own book, How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa (page 331).
Stanley is described as an “illegitimate son of Britain’s industrial masses”. Stanley was born John Rowlands on [...]

Augustine’s testimony of his struggle to give up sin gives a profound explanation of how addiction takes charge of our will. It further reveals that our struggle to choose to be saved is a battle of our will against our will. That’s how it was for Augustine, one of the most influential men of ancient [...]

John Hyde was born in Illinois, USA, on November 9, 1865.
His father, Dr Smith Hyde, was a Presbyterian minister, and in that manse the power of prayer became a reality to young John. In later years John would be known to his fellow missionaries as “Praying” Hyde. Smith and his godly wife prayed fervently that [...]

John Milton died on November 8, 1674. He is described as “the greatest poet of Christian themes England has produced”.
Born to a family of means in London on 9 December, 1608, his Christian convictions were most probably invoked through his mother, Sarah, who is described as a very religious person. His genius for poetry revealed [...]

William Franklin Graham was born on November 7 in 1918, in North Carolina.
Born four days before the end of World War I, Billy was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. During his childhood he helped on the family farm and spent many hours reading a wide variety of books in the hayloft.
In [...]