In case you hadn't noticed, I'd taken a prolonged hiatus from posting. While I was gone, Mount Virtus passed the one-year anniversary mark. A lot has changed since the first post last February, but I hope the commitment to quality remains the same. So why has the site been so quiet of late? I very recently spent a week at the Biblical Counseling Training Conference in Lafayette, Indiana, a positive and intense experience that has already brought me greater attention to two things: 1. The need for personal spiritual discipline and focused spiritual growth in my life; AND 2. The need for more serious spiritual interaction in the lives of those God has placed in my path. The conference was a tremendous experience and one I … [Read more...]
The Greatest Inaugural Address
On this important national day of reflection - both gazing back at history and forward into the uncharted future - we celebrate the peaceful transition of power in our Constitutionally-limited republican government. Inauguration Day comes every four years on the American calendar. Many of the most important speeches of our national public life are given on these days. To read and study them is to see not only something of the men who delivered them but also of the times in which they lived and the challenges Americans have faced - and so very often surmounted, as well. I'm certainly not adding anything new or controversial to the conversation when I say that the best of them all remains Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday, Ludwig
Following in the footsteps of Schroeder, perhaps my favorite Peanuts cartoon character, today (approximately... most historians believe somewhere between the 15th and 17th) we celebrate the birthday of the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, one of 7 children - only 3 survived past infancy - to a court musician and his wife. His accomplishments, achievements, and his pure genius are hard to recount here without making some serious oversights. Nevertheless, anyone with serious appreciation for good music is familiar with a number of his works. Beethoven was radical for his time and broke ground with his composition style. He ushered in the Romantic era of great music. Many of his symphonies … [Read more...]
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