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 […]
I remember seeing a cartoon. Crowds of people stretched to the horizon. From each mouth was coming the same question: What can one person do? This issue of Uplook is dedicated to inspire your own answer to that question. A few years ago, a book entitled The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell made a stir. […]
The worker whose supreme desire and passion is to be used in co-operation with the Holy Spirit in the winning of men to Christ must master in some degree the holy art of intercession. If the Master wept and prayed over lost souls, then His servant must do the same. Prayer must occupy a preeminent […]
A good Christian friend of ours was abandoned by her husband and left to raise four children by herself. Without financial support, Lorraine struggled desperately to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. These were years of incredible hardship and discouragements but somehow, through it all, the Lord met their needs […]
William Amos Upton was born in Minnesota on June 20, 1860 and born again on October 12, 1886. Reuben A. Torrey was used in leading him to the Lord. At the age of 76, brother Upton retired from his position in a feed and hardware store, and, feeling he had not long to live, he […]
When I was a little boy, we lived in the town of Bannockburn, Ontario. It is about halfway between Belleville and Bancroft, heading north. Summers were great, but winters were severe. It is amazing how God touches your life in different ways. He did that in mine until He brought me to the place where […]
By virtue of the fact that one is a Christian, one is a witness for Christ. I may or may not be a good witness, but nevertheless I am one. Jesus said, “…ye shall be witnesses unto Me…” (Acts 1:8). Our witnessing is important; we can have a considerable impact on those who do not […]
The gospel is seen to be glorious news which must be told. How will this be done? What is God’s plan? Who will be the witnesses? A very remarkable verse, more than any other, seems to outline the strategy of God for the propagation of the story of His Son. Incidentally, these are the last […]
1. A personal experimental knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour. The first condition of success in personal work, and in all soul-saving work, is a personal experimental knowledge of Christ as Saviour. It was because the Apostle Paul could say: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus […]