There are seasons in life when everything seems to be shaking. Old landmarks are crumbling, venerable foundations are upheaved in a night, and are scattered abroad as dust. Guiding buoys snap their moorings, and go drifting down the channel. Institutions which promised to outlast the hills collapse like a stricken tent. Assumptions in which everybody […]
Dawn Robinson moved from the open spaces of rural Georgia to Bible college, then on to California, and finally to the fast-paced life in New York City. She found a job with the financial firm Morgan Stanley on the 61st floor of the World Trade Centers. Soon, Dawn found opportunities to witness to Cassie, her […]
There are two things I know for sure: 1) life is simple, and 2) life is definitely not simple. The one statement is as fundamentally true as the other. Let me explain. Physical life is sustained in the following way: you get up in the morning, perform your necessary ablutions, have a good breakfast, and […]
The Scripture gives us total guidance for salvation and how, though sinful, we may get to heaven. It also teaches us salutary lessons for our welfare, and the Lord’s glory, while we are on the upward path. I have learned from the Bible that our God may allow what seem to be disasters in our […]
In this graphic, soul-stirring section of the book of Isaiah there is enshrined one of the most needed messages for today. Chapter 40 deals with comfort, and presents the God who is incomparable in His strength and sympathy. The content of the chapter is magnificent for its richness of revelation in the development of the […]
It is capable of demonstration that every great expansion in Christian history has been a product of some type of re-thinking of fundamental ideas. It is necessary to remember that too frequently old truths, losing their vitality, have become a hindrance to the progress of the gospel. Not the least hindrance to the gospel has […]
The Epistle to the Hebrews seems to have been written in view of the fall of Jerusalem, and the removal of the established form of religion initiated by Jehovah when Israel was delivered from Egypt. The holy places made with hands—the altar, the sacrifices, the priesthood, the covenant to which these things were attached, and […]
The Bible, or parts of it, is translated in more than 2,200 languages and dialects. The complete Bible is available in over 370 languages; the New Testament is published in 960 languages. Ninety-six per cent of the world population can read the Bible. In French we have a wide range of versions, from the much […]
This story begins with a young man who knew it all. I knew what was best for me, and how I should live my own life. I was going to enjoy those things in which I gloried. Thus, I wasted much of my high school years in drugs and alcohol. I left home a month […]