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A WAY TO ESCAPE

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. ” (1 Corinthians 10:13).    For Christians, temptation is an unpleasant, humbling, and stressful experience.  When we are tempted, we tend to think of ourselves as weak and inferior to other believers who surely don’t struggle with such things to the degree that we do.  Afterwards, we may feel guilty or unclean even if we have not followed the temptation and actually committed a sin.  It’s not unusual, either, for believers to be attacked in their dreams by images of themselves doing things that they would abhor in their waking hours.  They wake up feeling like they have sinned against the Lord, and they weep and repent for what they feel they have done.    Every temptation that we experience is just the r...
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CONVERSION AND CONVERSATION

My wife and I have lived in our current house for 50+ years.  We moved into it in 1973 and raised all five of our children here.  The furnace that heated the house when we moved in was originally an old coal burner that had been converted to burn natural gas.  It was huge and took up most of one room in our basement.  Furnaces like ours were known as “octopuses” because of the cluster of round heating ducts that came out of the top of them and extended to all the first floor rooms.  Just behind our furnace was a coal bin that still had some coal in it from the last load they had delivered to the house decades previously.  That old furnace was dependable if nothing else.  I don’t know when it was originally installed in the house, or when it was converted to gas; but it had to have been at least 30-40 years before we moved in, and it served us for another 30 years before we updated it.     Before that old furnace was converted, it was a di...
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SOLOMON'S PRAYER

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” (James 5:16).    When David the ancient king of Israel died, His son Solomon ascended to the throne.   During David’s reign, it was in his heart to build a fabulous temple for God.   God, however, told David that there was too much blood on his hands due to the extensive wars that he had fought to expand Israel’s borders.   David was told that it would be his son who would build God a house.   Therefore, David began to amass great quantities of materials with which his son could build a glorious house for God.   When David’s son Solomon became king, most of what he needed to build the House of God was provided already by his father.   Gold, silver, precious gems, brass, iron, timber, stone, fabrics, and much more were all waiting for Solomon to use.   He just needed to command the work.   David had even been given the blueprints for the temple by the inspiration of the...
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