Lost, While Believing You’re Safe
Dear Wake Up Family: On 22 March 1978, I watched Karl Wallenda, the tight-rope walker, lose his balance and fall ten stories to his death as he attempted to walk across a high wire strung between two towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I was fourteen then, but have never forgotten that television program or […]
Last Days of a Worn-out World
Dear Wake Up Family: On the morning of 2 June 2025 around 11 am, Mount Etna erupted. Video of the event showed an ashen, soot-filled smoke cloud rising 4 miles into the air. Soon after the initial eruption, a hot pyroclastic lava flow began streaming from its summit. Because the mountain is in southern Italy, […]
Are We Near the End of Days?
“Dear Mr. Wilson: I am 53 years old and I wonder if Jesus will return during my lifetime. I am a Presbyterian and one of our ministers recently held a class on the book of Revelation and his take was that the end of days was nowhere in sight. I have been wondering for quite […]