Fire! Fire! How quickly those words strike fear into our hearts! Yet, fire is the means of rejuvenating the creation along the shoreline. It starts oftentimes with a very small flame in the tinder dry dunegrass caused by a lightning strike, fireworks, a match, cigarette butt or a fire poorly attended. The result is the […]
January 5 Read Exodus 10:1-6 The fearful plague of thunderings and hail had ceased, and once again we read that Pharaoh hardened his heart. This was sovereignly ordained by God, for he instructed Moses to go again to Pharaoh in order to reveal to him and all people the power of God. Moses then describes […]
A few days later the old man sat at the table in his kitchen having coffee with Janet. Having seen her outside earlier straightening a few things up in the yard he had noticed that although she was going through the motions something just didn’t seem right. Thinking that maybe she was distracted for some […]
Dear John, Thank you for your courage in publishing your editorial in the November, 2007 Beacon Lights titled “Smoke-filled Rooms—Let’s Move on.” We are in total agreement with your expressed views. In Christian love, Joe & Mary Schutz 2706 S. Early Dawn Lane Spokane Valley, Washington Dear John, What a delightful experience to read your article in […]
Editor’s Notes—In this chapter, the author takes up the story of his European tour once again. He had first traveled the Netherlands with family, and then joined a tour group to visit various places of interest in other European countries. We joined a tour group now, and headed into Germany. We first exchanged some of […]
“Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.” Titus 2:6 Sobriety of mind is a virtue that the Scripture exhorts upon all believers. In the book of Titus the Scriptures say, to young and old, to office bearer and layman, to male and female, “be sober minded.” Titus 1:8 says that a bishop must be […]
Some time ago as I sat in church waiting for the morning service to begin I began to page through the Psalter. Not looking for anything specific I began with the first number and went through it page by page. As I went along I realized very quickly that for many of the songs I […]
Th’ eternal God created time, And then within those bounds He formed the earth and all therein Which to His praise abounds. He looked upon this wondrous work And He proclaimed it good: Ev’ry element so functioned As a perfect world should. Creation’s crowning work was man, Whom God formed from the dust; He breathed […]
The people of the Afscheiding who began to settle in the woods of West Michigan in 1847 treasured the doctrines of election and reprobation, preached the Heidelberg Catechism, and loved to sing the word of God in the Psalms. But they discovered that the Reformed Church in America, to which they had united in 1850, […]