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Uzziah ruled as a faithful king of Judah. But then, inflated with pride, he flouted God’s law by entering the temple and burning incense (which only the priests were permitted to do). When the high priest and his companions came in and confronted Uzziah, he “became enraged with the priests” (2 Chronicles 26:19).

Uzziah’s father was king Amaziah. He “did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart” (2 Chronicles 25:2). After a great victory in battle, Amaziah brought home the captured foreign idols, set them up,…

    One of the COVID casualties of 2020 that I felt the most was The Southside Lectures.  Understandably, they were canceled in the midst of the pandemic.  It would not have been expedient for us to meet twice a day for four days nor ask the speakers to travel when there was so much uncertainty about the coronavirus.  Still, it was a sad and odd summer without them.

    That’s why I am looking forward with such great anticipation for the return of the lectures this June.  When Brother Bowman and I asked the elders about how to proceed with planning…

Editor's Note: What follows is from an early issue of Christianity Magazine (Volume 3, #4, for April 1986). It was prepared and edited by Ed himself, and includes more about his younger days on the farm – and his own reflections on his old age and death.

So, from more than a third of a century ago, listen and profit! “Through his faith, though he died, he still speaks” (Hebrews 11:4b, ESV). -- GCK

In recent years, the most bone-chilling, foreboding thought tightly caged in the back of my mind has had to do not with nuclear war or heart attacks,…