As the days get progressively shorter, how glad I am that soon the trend will turn around. While our darkness in Washington does not even compare with the long nights of the northern hinterlands, I am always glad when the days start increasing again, even if it only incrementally. The longing for long sunny days makes me ponder. What would …
Have you ever been locked out of your car or house? Perhaps we can look through the windows and see the keys lying right there, but getting to those lonely keys is a mission impossible! Yet when the door is unlocked, without a thought, we are in the car and ready to go. What a difference an open and closed …
Heaven’s greatest challenge for eons, now, has been a labor shortage. Ever since a third of the workforce rebelled and walked off the job (Rev. 12:3), God has been calling for recruits. Humanity’s creation was for the purpose of solving this predicament (1BC, 1082); but since the rebellion of this earth, the labor shortage dilemma has grown severely acute. Jesus …
A comfortable easy chair is probably something all appreciate. Aching and fatigued, plopping into a favorite easy chair brings great relief; but sometimes easy chairs are a dangerous enemy-beckoning loudly when work is calling. There is an even more dangerous easy chair-Satan’s easy chair. “Do not sit down in Satan’s easy chair of do-little, but arise, and aim at the …
Greetings from the southern hemisphere, once again! Although, I left behind the Pacific Northwest summer, the wintery weather of Brazil is actually not much of a difference. I have hardly stayed put in one place for more than a week this whole summer, and the same is true here in Brazil. Having returned from Angola last month, then traveling to …
Dear Friend, We indeed are living in a grand and awesome time. While the media focuses upon international crises, economic woes and celebrity happenings, we know that these mundane episodes are nothing compared with the real issues. We are living in the measuring time! The judgment is going on! “The grand judgment is taking place, and has been going on …
Dear Friend, Sometimes do things not go the way we wish or think they should? Is it sometimes hard to understand why events happen? Sometimes weeks or even years later we can look back and understand why certain things happened, but other times no matter how much time elapses, there never seems to be an answer. When we cannot understand, …
Dear Friend, “We have no time to lose. The end is near. The passage from place to place to spread the truth will soon be hedged with dangers on the right hand and on the left. Everything will be placed to obstruct the way of the Lord’s messengers, so that they will not be able to do that which it …
Dear Friend, What a blessing that spring is here! As the living green begins to break forth from the brown underbrush, what a reminder it is of the resurrecting power of our God to bring new life from old, dead works. Every year we witness this powerful testimony of what our God desires to do in our lives, are we …
Dear Friend, As the lone angel was joined by an innumerable shining throng to swell the glad tidings “glory to God in the highest” across the Bethlehem pastures, so today we have been promised that the message of “fear God and give glory to Him” will swell to a loud, earth-encircling cry. How we look forward to that time! For …
