by mlightner@lightcreations.com | Nov 22, 2020 | Ezra
Vol.5, No. 45 – November 22, 2020 Shout of Joy Ezra 3:12-13 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted...
by mlightner@lightcreations.com | Sep 9, 2018 | Ezra
Vol. 3, No. 36 For if I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and...
by mlightner@lightcreations.com | Mar 12, 2018 | Ezra
Vol. 3 No. 10 – John 5:1-23 (3.11.2018) Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool . . . –John 5:1-23 Charles Kettering, a great inventor suggested that we must learn to fail intelligently. “Once you have failed, analyze the problem and find out why, because...
by mlightner@lightcreations.com | Jan 28, 2018 | Ezra, People God Uses
Vol. 3 No. 4 – 1-28-2018 Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy. –Luke 9:38 Almost 52 years ago, the doctor came down the hallway in the hospital. He did not say hi, or anything close. He just said, “Mr. Lightner, you are never going to take...
by mlightner@lightcreations.com | Jun 1, 2016 | Ezra
Vol. 1, No. 7 – 2016 You . . . get up! This matter is your responsibility (but we will help). Take courage, act, because no one else will! (Ezra 10:4 paraphrase) There are those days in life where it is OK to take it easy; but there are days when you need to just get...
by mlightner@lightcreations.com | May 5, 2016 | Ezra
Vol. 1, No. 6 – 2016 The work is going forward with great energy and success . . . (Ezra 5:8) A popular advertisement of years gone by showed four guys sitting around in their fishing gear, high up in the mountains. They sit around a camp fire with their fish...