Cedric Fisher: "earnestly contending for the faith."

Month: January 2016

The Way It Used To Be

“When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.” – Psalm 42:4

We have all heard and engaged in conversations about how life used to be.  The elders can tell some fascinating tales of no running water, of walking miles on a dusty road to the store, of freezing cold winters, frost so thick that it looked like snow, and a single pot-belly wood stove for heat.  But those were still the good ole days, deemed such because life seemed simpler and better.  The elders were respected, children more obedient, people kinder, compassionate and honest.  Hedonism existed only in the largest cities and only at night.  There wasn’t as much on TV, but there was more of what mattered in people’s hearts.

Today, the world is a dangerous place, and wickedness rules the night as well as the day.  Our children and young people are under vicious attack by liberalism’s ripening and poisonous fruit.  There is virtually no sector of society that has not been invaded and infected by the toxic atmosphere being made ready for the Antichrist kingdom. Continue reading

2016–Here We Go Again

Here we are at the beginning of another year.  It is amazing how the last year closes its pages on 12 months of procrastination, mistakes, bad decisions, calamities, prayerlessness, faithlessness, no productivity, materialism and love for the world system, et cetera.  And we believe the very next day somehow begins a different paradigm.  Oh, we mean well with those resolutions and all.  But we do not stick with any of them.  Instead, we creep to the first day of the next year when we can again breathe a collective sigh of relief with the pseudo-certainty that the next 12 months will be different—ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Somewhere people are reading this and saying with barely contained rancor, “See how this man rains on everyone’s parade.”

That’s not my intent.  I just want people to realize that life is not necessarily corrected by flips of the calendar.  It takes a conscious and dedicated effort to change what can and needs to be changed in us.  A new calendar will not help anyone quit smoking tobacco.  It certainly will not help a professing Christian to stop smoking spiritually.  Vance Havener once said, “I was born in the fire, and I’m not about to die in the smoke.” Continue reading

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