Beacon2Light

Prepare for the Christmas season With useful tips and ideas, biblical reminders, and encouragement to view Christmas from a heavenly perspective, Celebrate Christmas covers a wide range of topics to help you prepare for the Christmas season, including: Managing expectations Dealing with in-laws/extended family Offering hope for those who grieve at Christmas Reducing (or avoiding!) holiday stressors Finding ways to serve Jesus by serving others And more This Christmas season, spend time with your family and loved ones focusing on what’s important—worshiping the Savior, helping others, and enjoying the blessings God has given you. Celebrate Christmas , a free e-book from Family Life  Advent Devotional  Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional Kindle Edition $9.17 Hardcover $16.19 The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent  Kindle Edition  $3.99   Paperback $7.99 by  John Piper ...

I was checking out the Facebook page of the guy who lost his life on the motorcycle on Woodburne Road in Levittown, PA  on January 6, 2013. Video News: Fatal Motorcycle Crash, Middletown According to one of his posts, in May of last year he had a spin out doing an excessive amount of speed (I consider 70 to be excessive) and remarked that he was almost hurt. His friends and family urged him to be careful, one even saying he should sell that bike. Police stated that he owned a Yamaha R6 Another stated, "Dude, you're gonna get yourself killed!" Well, he did die and I feel bad for him being so young (20 years old) and also for his friends and family who grieve over his loss. Young people, you are not bullet-proof; asphalt doesn't give way to flesh but the other way around. Please do be careful and if you think of it, pray for this young man's loved ones. They certainly do need it. -- Since we don't know how long any of us has on this Earth, consider again the cla...

Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.” But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:39-43 (NKJV) Too often this is how people try to come to Jesus.  "If You are the Christ . . . "  That's not saving faith, that's doubt and even finger-pointing.  Such a person is saying that I won't believe in God unless He does this or that for me (or in front of me).  It's not about trusting; it's about doubting.  It's not even about evidence, because such a person isn't looking for a reason to believe but for justification in not belie...