04/11/23 IT HAS BEEN AN ADVENTURE

04/11/23 IT HAS BEEN AN ADVENTURE

We have been exiles, sojourners, aliens for about 38 years. We have lived in apartments, houses, motels, travel trailers, vans, a bus, a tent, as guests in other people's homes. We have worshiped in trailers, a converted Mexican restaurant, a bus, store fronts, an annex to a bar, libraries, open fields, living rooms, a train station, a book store and even in "church buildings," including a R.C. facility, and we have relocated in one city eight different times in one year, in order to please the State, without compromising the Lordship of Christ over His church.

We have been happy wherever God led us and we did not complain because we did not have anything to complain about. It has not always been easy, especially as we were raising four children and giving them a Christian education while we fled the threats and oppression of Babylon and weaved our way through Laodicea.

I got my library out of storage again and I am ready to set it up. I have had it set up from time to time (since the time we lived in M.C.) in North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina. I have tried to keep my most valuable books "handy" through the years, but I have also used the resources on the internet.

I enjoyed my "settled years" of ministry, but I have no regrets or complaints about our years of wandering. We (along with the rest of the world) are facing new, strange, difficult, dangerous days ahead. No matter how the devil tempts me and how the world will hate me, God will not fail me. I want to be faithful as we come to the last part of my journey (which could last until I am 100+ years old). My greatest concern is for those who have abandoned the truths they were taught, and for those who are drifting away from the Lord. The days ahead are going to take a major toll on many who have known the way of salvation, but have turned aside.

Remember, Paul said,
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.