The Clarion Call of the Bells 2-16-14 I miss the sound of church bells ringing on a Sunday morning.   It is a fond memory from my youth.   How sad that the bells have been silenced in the present time.   There was a time when it was relied upon as the time to start your day and get ready for a time to be spent with the Lord. I can only surmise the reasoning behind the silencing.   The high school I attended has a clock tower with clarion bells. It used to be that the bells would chime with the hour and half hour just like a grandfather clock.   During my high school years the bells were silent due to a need for maintenance.   Soon thereafter the bells were repaired and once again rang out, that is until the neighbors complained of the ‘noise’. I therefore surmise that the church bells are silent for the same reason.   As fewer people attended church or needed to ‘sleep in’ on Sunday (probably due to Saturday night’s events) the sound of...

2-16-14 Faith without works (Jas 2:26)   For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Some people seem to think that you can ‘work’ your way into heaven.   After all, they are a ‘good’ person. (I will leave the obvious alone for now.) However, this verse is not meant to mean that you have to work your way into heaven, rather it means that if you have faith for, trust in something to happen, that you can’t just sit on your laurels and sit back and wait for it to occur.   Your faith requires that you get up and get active and do your part so that the thing will come to pass.   God’s already done his part, the rest requires the action of your hands and feet. (Mt 9:29 according to your faith it will be done). Do you have faith enough in what you believe to walk it out?   Do your part, start the project, let God take care of His part in opening the right doors for you to walk through. ( (Mat 17:20)   And ...