“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (Jas. 1:27). Have you ever been challenged, as a believer, to become actively involved in the life of an underprivileged or unwanted child? There is a tremendous […]
What preacher does not delight to quote John 3:16? To what Christian are not its wonderful words familiar? Is it not the best known gospel text? Who can estimate the number that have been led to the Saviour by its message of love? But who stops to think that there is another John 3:16 in […]
“And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how His body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment” (Lk. 23:55-56). Think about these women for a moment. They had just returned from the funeral […]
The poor man is the man without a margin. His income, even when it does come in–and he has no assurance that it will not fail–barely covers the irreducible minimum of the subsistence expenditure of his family. Life for him is a straitened business, in which he has no room to move about, no sense […]
The time was December of 1983. The place was the office of Jean Gibson at Fairhaven Bible Chapel in San Leandro, California. My wife Nancy and I were attending the Discipleship Intern Training Program that Jean and William MacDonald had organized. The program began in late August of 1983 and ran through May of 1984. […]
In some respects young men have an advantage in open-air preaching over those who are older. They are as a rule less cautious, and therefore more ready to take risks that the older would not take. They see visions where the older dream dreams. There is, moreover, a freshness of faith and a simplicity of […]
Is the world overrun with demons? Is demonic activity, as we are told, the cause for virtually every problem a Christian will encounter? Whether it be emotional problems, addictions, physical illness, or marital unfaithfulness–are these all caused by demonic activity? This is the teaching of the popular “Spiritual Warfare” movement. Spiritual warfare teachers, who once […]
True Christianity is far removed from the hurdy-gurdy entertainment of modern Christendom. It is not to be confused with the luxury-living and pleasure-seeking that are so rampant today. Rather, it is a struggle to the death, an unceasing conflict against the forces of hell. No disciple is worth his salt who does not realize that […]
How dreadful a thing it is to allow ourselves to get into a condition of soul in which we are unable to bear distinct testimony against the ministers of Satan. “We must,” it is said, “be liberal”; “we must not hurt people’s feelings.” But truth is truth, and we are not to put error for […]