GETTING OUT OF THE DARK FOREST

“Your word is a lamp that gives light wherever I walk.” (Psalm 119:105 Contemporary English Version) Participating in a senior scout rendezvous, a group of older young boys were required to spend the night in the woods, near a far-eastside reservoir. To one of the boys, it was a challenge comparable to being a contestant on one of the televised, wilderness survival shows. The adult leader of...

DEFEAT OR VICTORY

“But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them.  So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.  Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the region.”  So the men went up and spied out Ai. ...