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ARISE, SHINE, FOR THY LIGHT IS COME

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee .” (Isaiah 60:1, 2).   Surely, anyone observing current world events in general and American politics in particular must admit that a gross darkness has covered the people, and a dense fog has permeated their minds.  It truly is like the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and people have lost the ability to apply reason and good sense to the issues facing us every day.  during the last administration our government chose to ignore, and refused to acknowledge, that our country’s borders were virtually open to terrorists, drug lords, and foreign nations that seek to do us harm.  Even our airspace was proven to be porous to surveillance activities as well.  The authority of parents over their own children has been chal...
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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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