As editor I would like to thank everyone who has shown their support for the work of Beacon Lights with notes and words of encouragement. It means a lot to me as well as the staff. We really appreciate it when someone thinks about Beacon Lights when they read a good poem, article, or story […]
Brothers and sisters in Christ, I present to you (pardon the pun) a dramatization. The scene is Friday or Saturday night. Friend A calls up friend B and asks, “What’s going on tonight?” Friend B says “Oh, not much, a bunch of us are going over to friend C’s house; we’ll probably just watch a […]
Dear Pastor Laning, Greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, First and foremost I am very thankful to God for the introduction of the new rubric “The Reader Asks” to our Beacon Lights Christian magazine. My first question I would like to ask you is on evangelism. During the early church time, there were […]
I am fascinated by boats; especially sailboats. They are so graceful and quiet, but for the sound of the waves and the slapping of the sails and lines against the mast. I’ve watched them for hours on the lake. Watched them motor in and out of the harbor. Watched them tack and run with the […]
It was a dark and stormy night…! A lot of stories begin with those words. Well, my life began exactly in that way. A blizzard raged throughout Northwest Iowa in November of 1935. The power went out on the 22nd, so that I was greeted by a few flickering candles in the parsonage of the […]
May 1 Read I Peter 4:1-11; Lord’s Day 33 Q&A 90 Young people, what is joyous for you? In what do you find delight in this life? Is it things? Is it worldly happiness? This question and answer outlines for us what should be our joy. We should joy in living a life of thankfulness […]
There have always been subjects in the church that have been a bit harder to put a finger on what is right and what is wrong. There are some issues that Christians are at liberty to decide on by themselves (within the bounds that Christ has set). There are issues that we can see are […]
Michelle is a member of Hull Protestant Reformed Church in Hull, Iowa. She wrote is article for the 2001 Protestant Reformed Scholarship For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. […]
In the last article we spent some time analyzing the character and personality of Arminius. We then went on to look at what God’s Word has to say about those who are teachers in the church. The lesson that we learned is that we are to evaluate teachers by the contents of the gospel that […]
(written 1997, age 12) My mother is kind, And loving in every way, My mother is there, To listen to what we say. My mother hurries about, Doing what we ask, My mother listens to our needs, And hastens to do every task. But sometimes we do not listen, To what she has to say, […]