What does the word “goodness” mean? Goodness may be understood as a constant condition of the heart that moves a person to do what is good. When it is said that a person has “goodness” it means they have a propensity for doing good; it is like a spring of water within them, welling up […]
Where I grew up, faith in God was a well-stocked commodity. Doubting the Lord was like doubting the sun. It was so obvious, even a blind man could feel its warmth. At family gatherings we prayed to the God who provided, we sang of His faithfulness, and sat around hearing and telling stories about “His […]
“You’re throwing your life away!” was my workmate’s retort, when I resigned my job as an accountant to follow the Lord’s leading to take the gospel to those who had never heard it. “Give up your career? How are you going to support yourself?” an older Christian barked out when I told him of what […]
Considering the fact that John the Baptist was the greatest man born of women, little is told us about him, but we do know what he wore and what he ate. Usually we would say that it does not matter what people eat or wear. You cannot tell much if anything about what Noah, Moses […]
William MacDonald, in his Foreword to Take the Challenge, the book from which this article is excerpted, wrote of his friend George Campbell: “There was something truly apostolic about his ministry. Together with his co-workers, he had seen a number of assemblies planted in Newfoundland and Labrador in the space of 30 years. I am […]
“All dollar dealings suspended.” The message of the telegram was clear and it was enough to strike a cold, gnawing fear into any heart. The year was 1929, the time of the stock market crash. Six years before, Wallace and Ruth Logan had left their family and friends and also a thriving electrical contracting business […]
During 1948 there occurred two historic events of special interest to Bible students, namely, the rebirth of Israel as a nation and the formation of the World Council of Churches. More importantly to me, however, 1948 was also the year in which I stepped into full-time service for the Lord, believing He would both guide […]
In the spring of 1905 we moved permanently to Alberta to live and labor as the Lord would be pleased to lead and use us. My wife, family and I had a pleasant journey and arrived hail and hearty in Edmonton. It was not long before we settled down to the stern realities of life […]
Q: Tell us about some of your early experiences. A: I was saved on May 3, 1918, and two weeks later was baptized and received into the assembly at Donegal Road in Belfast. I was sixteen years of age at that time. In that same year I went to Harland and Wolf Shipyard and contracted […]