Well, since this is my first post, I think I'll go ahead and explain the title of this blog,
"the light is on." It goes back several years to when a couple of very good friends and I would periodically get together, simply to talk over coffee. In our caffeine induced buzz, we would generally discuss philosophy/theology, and apply to whichever current issue resonated with us at the time. As time went on, we went our separate ways and because of geography, could only get together one or two times a year (now its even less than that :( ). But we found these discussions so invigorating, and at times even profitable, that we decided we would continue them when and where time and circumstances allowed. My friend Steve then said that it was kind of like a small esoteric order which met infrequently in a mighty tower. When people looked at the tower, it was dark. But every so often, pretty rarely in fact, the light in the tower would come on. This meant that the three were back, to discuss deep and important truths. Hence "the light is on". Let me be clear, neither me, nor my two comrades consider ourselves quite that important! But let me also add that my friend Steve's point was that it is a good thing to come aside to talk about eternal things, the things that are really important. But we don't spend our live in the tower. We leave the tower to engage the world with the mighty truths of the love and revelation of God in his Son, Jesus Christ. Indeed, HE is the Light of the world - still.