Dear Friends, All to Jesus, I surrender; Humbly at His feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken; Take me, Jesus, take me now. — Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896 “Go south to the road — the desert road — that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza” (Acts 8:26, NIV). That’s what the Angel of the
A Word of Grace – June 17, 2013
Dear Friends, We continue with our meditation on the lessons to be learned from the life and times of the patriarch, Enoch. (Gen 5:18-24). # All the things most likely to distract you and me away from God were a danger to Enoch’s relationship with God. There were family responsibilities, work obligations and entertainment. Yet
A Word of Grace – June 10, 2013
Dear Friends, The next two messages are meditations on the patriarch Enoch whose story is briefly told in Genesis 5:18-24 and whose faith is commended in Hebrews 11:5-6). When Enoch was 65, he fathered Methuselah. He started walking with God then and kept on for another 300 years during which he fathered other sons and
A Word of Grace – June 3, 2013
Dear Friends, This is part two of a two-part series on how and when to fight the good fight with particular attention to David’s decisive battle against Goliath described in 1 Samuel 17. I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following
C.S. Lewis Around the Web – May 30, 2013
We here at the C.S. Lewis Foundation are very proud of Debbie Higgins, the resident director at The Kilns, for the publishing of her first book, Announcing ‘Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings. The book gives “a detailed study of how Tolkien entered into the community of Anglo-Saxon storytellers as a