by altha-admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Articles
After every time of darkness there comes a mixture of delight and humiliation (if there is delight only, I question whether we have heard God at all), delight in hearing God speak, but chiefly humiliation – What a long time I was in hearing that! How slow I have been...
by altha-admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Articles
Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him. Birds merely following the impulse and power given to them by their Creator:"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap,...
by altha-admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Articles
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him.Nothing could be further from the Truth:"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." (1 John...
by altha-admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Articles
To read the Bible according to God’s providential order in your circumstances is the only way to read it, viz., in the blood and passion of personal life. — Oswald Chambers It is not our own flesh and blood that must guide our reading and understanding of...
by altha-admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Articles
"Power corrupts; absolutely power corrupts absolutely." — Lord Acton.If the voters in a community insist on allowing a man to serve term after term without much oversight, no one should be surprised if corruption comes about. The former mayor of the...
by altha-admin | Feb 11, 2012 | Articles
Hawthorne, California former mayor Larry Guidi served for nearly twenty years. It's amazing that no matter how often power corrupts, no matter how often pundits and journalists implore people to keep an eye on local government, voters still will turn out in small...
