A Free CD & More Pink

My last two song spotlights have been from the pictured JJ Heller CD, "Only Love Remains." I'm a brand new fan but a big one. I loved this CD so much that I ordered her other two earlier albums the other day. I was delighted to get the package from Arizona today -- but to my surprise, instead of her first two albums in the package, I received the first and the third (Only Love Remains, which I obviously already have). After double checking my order, I notified them of their mistake, and they told that they would immediately send her second CD and to give the Only Love Remains CD to a friend. So here's your chance. The first person to comment on this post gets it. If I don't see you often, be sure to leave your address. I'll pay for the shipping. Hey, it's what friends do, right?

Still plodding my way through Arthur Pink's book on Elijah....I've got all these new books to start reading, but I'm making myself finish this one, and with every chapter I'm reminded that it's worth it. What makes the book great is that even though I've read the Bible on Elijah several times, even with much concentration, Pink always brings up things that I never thought about. He amazes me with the depth he gives each verse in the Scriptures. Maybe if I didn't spend so much time doing meaningless things, I too could do that one day. Anyway, the verse in mind is 1 Kings 18:30, which is the moment right in the middle of the great showdown between Baal and Jehovah, right before Elijah called on the one true God. The first thing he did was to repair the altar of the Lord --- sure, because it was broken --- my simple mind tells me. But why was it broken? Of course, because Israel had just about completely abandoned their God -- the same God that brought them out of slavery in Egypt! We wouldn't do that, would we? Or would we? The words of Pink:

And reader, this is recorded for our instruction: Elijah began by repairing the broken altar. And that is where we must begin if the blessing of Heaven is to come again on the churches and on our land. In many a professing Christian home there is a neglected altar of God. There was a time when the family gathered together and owned God in the authority of His Law, in the goodness of His daily providence, in the love of His redemption and continuing grace, but the sound of united worship no longer is heard ascending from that home. Prosperity, worldliness, pleasure, has silenced the accents of devotion. The altar has fallen down: the dark shadow of sin rests on that house. And there can be no approach to God while sin in unconfessed. They who hide sin cannot prosper, Prov. 28:13. Sin must be confessed before God will respond with holy fire. And sin must be confessed in deed as well as in word: the altar must be set up again. The Christian must go back to the place of beginning. See Genesis 13:1-4; Revelation 2:4,5.