"Temporary" Home Page
For Such a Time
I have commandeered this web site Home page for a while in order to feature a small booklet I've written. Its title is the same as the heading above, and you will find just below this notice a little write-up about it, and links to download a PDF version for reading, or, if you prefer, a YouTube link to listen to me read it.
If you really came just for the normal web site, the "Normal" Home Page can be found on the top menu, second item from the left. And if you really came just for the booklet, please help yourself, but you might as well poke around the rest of the website before you take off.
Researching and writing history is a fascinating way to spend one’s time. The stories are endless, and the lessons nearly so. But now and then the issues of history take on unusual importance. There are many, many pertinent lessons for today—for any day, really, but most don’t carry enough weight to be urgent. Needed, yes, but something to be worked in as life goes on. Now and then, though, an issue, a principle, a lesson from the past can resonate with the present in such a way that its application rises above the normal din of history, generating a worrying suspicion that the time to benefit from this particular instruction is limited. That opportunities lost, might not come again.
It has been so with this story.
In a time when “current events” are rapid enough to easily raise thoughts of “closing events”; when the “classic sins” of all history past are blending easily into the “prophetic sins” of the predicted future; when Great Controversy seems needed more than ever; and God’s church approaches a General Conference potentially as momentous as 1901—it would be well for the prayers of all saints to ascend, asking God that His church might be protected, corrected, and purified from all worldly influence, all unscriptural commitments and obligations that would compromise the “voice of God” to His people.
May God give wisdom to those who have the care of “the heart of the work.”
If you would like to download a PDF version of the book, simply click [HERE].
If you're more of an auditory learner, of if you just have an annoyingly long daily commute to fill, the following link will take you to a YouTube video in which I simply read through the booklet. The text is provided on screen courtesy of Scott Ritsema (who is also the one who spelled my last name wrong on that page... but I've forgiven him). In any case, though, you really shouldn't be reading the text while driving to and from work.
