LET THERE BE LIGHT

“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” (Psalm 119:105 New International Version) Version) A truly, tremendously faithful, tireless worker in the kingdom was driving at night recently, heading home after attending to, ministering to the needs of others. Her navigation over the roads seemed to be more challenging than ever as the byways were harder to see. The bumps,...

KEEP ON WALKING & KEEP ON TALKING

“By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.” (Hebrews 11:30 NIV) As you celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, you will probably hear a sampling of some of the civil rights songs of the sixties.  One of them you might hear is based on the spiritual, “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around.”  We know it most likely as,...

TURN IT UP JUST ONE DEGREE!

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way that you may win.” (2 Corinthians 9:24 NASB) S.L. Parker, in a book he authored in 2005, entitled “212: The Extra Degree,” wrote, “At 211 degrees water is hot.  At 212 degrees water boils.  And with boiling water, comes steam, and with steam, you can power a train.” ...

WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO GO THROUGH IT

“He orders the snow, ‘Blanket the earth!’ and the rain, ‘Soak the whole countryside!’  No one can escape the weather—it’s there.  And no one can escape from God.  Wild animals take shelter, crawling into their dens, when blizzards roar out of the north and freezing rain crusts the land.  It’s God’s breath that forms the ice, it’s God’s breath that turns lakes and rivers...