It was a rough year for the small coal mining community. Coal mining is difficult, dirty work under the best of conditions, but with the country moving to cleaner and cheaper sources of energy like natural gas and solar energy, the coal miners were beginning to see the handwriting on the wall. One miner expressed his frustration like this: “My life is filled with mountaintop experiences. One day, I’m on top of the mountain. The next day the mountain is on top of me.” We understand his pain.

The Bible refers to numerous mountaintop experiences. Some of the time people in the Bible felt they were on the mountain. Other times they felt that the mountain was on top of them.

It was on Mount Moriah that Abraham felt God was calling him to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham surely felt at that mo…