John McElroy

Excerpt: "Whatever else may be said of Southern statesmen, of the elder school, they certainly had an imperial breadth of view. They took in the whole continent in a way that their Northern colleagues were slow in doing. It cannot be said just when they began to plan for a separate Government which would have Slavery as its cornerstone, would dominate the Continent and ultimately absorb Cuba, Mexico and Central America as far as the Isthmus of Panama."...

"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." - Matthew 13:44 The good news of the Kingdom was Jesus' primary message. The gate into it is narrow and few find it. Unfortunately, the treasure still lies hidden, undiscovered by many in the church. Without a Kingdom focus, God's people revert to lesser priorities. For decades, rather...

A novel set during the American Civil War. As a sixteen year old in 1863, McElroy enlisted as a private in the Union Army. The following year he was captured by Confederate cavalrymen and was imprisoned for the remainder of the war.  The story's name is made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and...

"See I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse." These final verses of Malachi 4 echo a promise and a warning to God's people. The promise points to the church returning to its relational foundations and bridging the generation gaps. Yet with...