All my life I have thought of September as being the beginning of a year. It must have to do with the double effect of a late August birthday coupled with the beginning of a new school year, for I am old enough to remember when children did not return to school until after Labor […]

                  “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 NASB It is often stated that the opposite of love is hate. As children when we learn opposites: good/bad, up/down, […]

Sonship Now… Dear Firstlight Family and friends! A Blessed and Warm summer Hello to each and every one! This month of August is going to be a very exciting one for us and our partnership with you. Dan, my wife Paula, and I have been invited to be a part of a ground-breaking gathering in […]

August is the month of mine and my father’s birthdays. Mine is before his, and he says that I was his birthday present. This year we are blessed to be once again living under the same roof to celebrate these auspicious days together. My father will be 89 years old. He has remarked to me, […]

Pressing on towards the goal for the prize… Earlier this year I was in the Emmanuel Theological Seminary (ETS) in Kalaymyo, Myanmar teaching a group of third and fourth year students from a series of selective bible studies that I felt would be beneficial to them, as each one was starting their journey of learning […]

“He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.” Psalms 18:33 NLT I saw a cartoon the other day. In it was a stick figure standing at a little stick desk. Above him a sign read, ‘Returns.’ In the next frame another stick figure approached his desk, stating, ‘I’d […]