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THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE

Jesus’ teaching was very hard for the people to accept.   Just the day before, He had multiplied a few loaves and fish to feed over five thousand people.   They had come out to see Him then because of the miracles that He was performing on the sick and afflicted.   They loved Him then, but their focus seemed to be more on those miracles than on trying to understand the words of life that Jesus was speaking to them.   They were ready to accept Him as a prophet, and they would have even tried to make Him a king; but they couldn’t see that Jesus was much more than that: He was the Son of God and their long-awaited Messiah.   Jesus had sent His twelve disciples over the sea to Capernaum the night before.   It was then that He had appeared to them walking on the sea as they struggled against a great storm.   When the people realized that Jesus had gone, they found means to cross the sea also and found Jesus at Capernaum.   Jesus called them out by ...
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THE STILL, SMALL VOICE

Elijah was a prophet of the Lord who lived around 900 B.C.   God worked many miracles through Elijah including sending fire from heaven in a great contest between him and the prophets of Baal.   The story with which I most identify from Elijah's life, however, is found in the 19th chapter of 1 Kings.     After Elijah's confrontation on Mt. Carmel with the Baal worshippers, Queen Jezebel of Israel was furious with him and commanded that he be put to death.  Elijah's response was like what yours or mine might be: he fled for his life, traveling a day's journey into the wilderness to hide.  While there, Elijah began to feel sorry for himself, and asked God to end his life.  Instead, the Lord sends an angel to minister to him, providing food and water to sustain him.  On the strength of that food, Elijah is able to travel 40 days to Mt. Horeb, where he finds a cave to hide in.  It is there that God asks him this pointed question, "What doest ...
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LET US GO UP AT ONCE!

In 1941, during World War II, the Nazis invaded Belarussia and began a systematic extermination of the Jewish inhabitants.   They filled vast mass graves with the bodies of those whom they brutally murdered.   Using local collaborators, the Germans were able to discover and slaughter whole families.     Four brothers by the name of Bielski, whose parents were slain during this persecution, were driven into the immense forests of that area to try and survive.  Before long, they found themselves caring for a large number of others who had also fled to the forest for safety.  There is a motion picture called Defiance which depicts the story of their plight.   In one scene from the movie, the older brother, who had become the leader and a sort of Moses to the band of Jews, was trying to rescue the group after the Germans had discovered their location.  As they struggled to make their way through the forest, they came to a large marsh that see...
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