Storms can be so scary, threatening and even devastating. We can wish and hope that they will never come, but they do and they always will. Some of my past extreme weather experiences come to mind as I contemplate the crisis that is happening in our world today. I recall a day when I was a child, that we had a frightening hail storm. It brought so much hail that we went out on the porch and picked it up by the panful. Then there was one winter day when we had so much rain that icicles formed from the eaves of the house all the way to the ground. That was a really rare thing for western Kentucky. I remember another time when we had a big snow on top of freezing rain. The trees and shrubs were
The songwriter George Duffield wrote: Stand up, stand up for Jesus, Ye soldiers of the cross; Lift high His royal banner— It must not suffer loss. What a sermon, what a statement of truth and what an analysis of the need of the hour this great song is! In a day when a significant portion of the seven billion souls inhabiting the planet have turned a deaf ear to God and set themselves on a path to destruction, we suddenly realize the preacher was telling us the truth when he said, “In the last days perilous times shall come” (II Tim. 3:1). Perilous times, indeed, dangerous times are before us. But it is not the time to hide ourselves away in some bunker of supposed safety simply to await the
