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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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JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOR BEARER

“And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.   When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.  And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.  As for Saul [the King of Israel], he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.” (1 Samuel 13:5-7).   King Saul found himself in difficult straits.   An innumerable host of Philistines had gathered their forces at a place called Michmash in the highlands north of Jerusalem.   Much of Saul’s army was frightened because of the overwhelming odds and went to hide themselves in the caves, hills and pits around the...
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