The Lord was kind to give me a blessed day which included some very precious meetings and visits with a number of men and women whom I admire greatly. I spent a happy thirty minutes with Nancy DeMoss (who inherited Elizabeth Eliot’s “Gateway to Joy” radio broadcast). We discussed the issues of the day (from Christian modesty to women in the military) and reminisced about our respective fathers who shared affection for each other during the seventies and eighties. Nancy told me that her father daily prayed for God’s blessing on my own father, a fact which warmed my heart to hear.

Later I spent about thirty minutes with Dr. Jay Adams, a remarkably humble man and hero of the Faith who shared with me his perspective on Bible translations and the “New Perspective on Paul.” I met for about thirty minutes with Republican congressional candidate Bill Federer and discussed (a) the substantial threat to freedom of going to electronic voting, (b) the history of the IRS and (c)the tradition that many presidents would not only acknowledge God, but Jesus Christ specifically, in their inauguration speeches.

I briefly visited with the team from Ligonier Ministries and communicated with them that I really missed not having R.C., Jr. manage Table Talk. I also enjoyed a good half hour with Pastor Jerry Marcelino (author of Recovering the Lost Tools of Family Worship, and publisher of Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards) and Pastor Dennis Gunderson (of Grace and Truth Books). We discussed the doctrine of justification and Vision Forum’s tape series The Great Debate on Baptism and the Covenant.

In the evening God blessed us with a glorious dinner with Phil Lancaster of Patriarch Magazine (who had been with my staff all day signing his Vision Forum published book — Family Man, Family Leader), and Tim Dudley, president of Masters Books, who shared his experience as a boy visiting Maria Von Trapp with his dad, her personal biographer.