The Positive Value of Prophecy This past week most of us had the opportunity to focus on the many things we can be thankful for. Of course, we should try to have a continual attitude of gratitude toward God and His many blessings. However, a reminder is still good for us, whether we live in…

Character

Dean William R. Inge is credited with saying, “A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it.” Just to clarify, it would seem that the human blessings he refers to are of human origin and therefore flawed. They are the result of government of the people, by the…

Like most of you, on my computer I have a screen saver – a scene that changes every 24 hours. This past Monday, being the date ascribed to the pagan holiday of Halloween, the screen saver was a gloomy, dark forest scene with a black-clad faceless figure wandering through the forest. The darkness was entirely…

You can learn a lot from a successful writer. Like what? Well, consider this from well-known journalist and author Henry Hazlitt. “The reader who seeks to write well and think well should aim first at the essential qualities of coherence, clarity, precision, simplicity, and brevity.” Notice that he says these five essential qualities are not…

Welcome home to those of you who have returned from traveling. All reports so far indicate that this was yet another blessed and uplifting Feast. We need to give God the glory, and I know we all want to say “thank you” to those who worked hard for our benefit and enjoyment – wherever we…

Greetings, Satellite Sites: Many are on the move already headed to the various meeting places, with the main site being in Oxnard, CA. This year there will be several smaller satellite sites – including Branson, MO, Motley, MN, Roswell, NM, and Boise, ID. Finances and health are the main determining factors for these extra sites.…

Things are changing rapidly around the world and, more specifically, here in the U.S. Yes, that is a huge understatement, especially when we consider it from a spiritual perspective. In a recent survey put out by Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research, 53% of adults in our country now believe that scripture is not literally true.…

This week all eyes have been on events in Britain with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. World leaders gathered from around the world to pay tribute to a remarkable woman and a highly respected monarch. Sadly though, few would have had any idea of the origin of the British monarchy in the Old Testament…

“A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world and might even be more difficult to save.” – C.S. Lewis What is meant by “nice people, turned away from God”? Well, nice means pleasant…

Is the writing on the wall? This week a senior official in the U.S. Justice Department called the Alliance Defending Freedom a “hate group.” The ADF is the nation’s leading legal advocate of religious liberty. The Justice Department has done nothing to rescind his remarks. The writing on the wall says that the liberty we…

You have probably read in recent news that Canada’s health care system is now planning to broaden the scope of their, already in place, medically assisted suicide. The plan is to make it far easier to end one’s life. The proposed plan for 2023 is to actually make it available to children as well. Stunning?…

As we approach the last Holy Day season for 2022, God’s people need to contemplate what God has given us. Looking forward to the soon-coming Kingdom of God gives us hope. The hope of salvation through Jesus Christ. We have something that the rest of mankind desperately needs. The question then is, how do we…