It’s happening as you read these words. Somewhere a Christian is dying for his faith. Christian women are being raped. Christians’ children are being sold into slavery. It is happening to our own brothers and sisters–torture, imprisonment, harassment, starvation, to say nothing of banishment, family destruction, literature bans, and prohibition to meet as believers. I […]
My name is Dennis LeBlanc and I am a student at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. I was raised in a happy home by Christian parents in a town called St. Stephen in the province of New Brunswick. From a very young age I learned of the Lord Jesus Christ and how He had […]
When Pope Urbane II called for the first Crusade in 1095, he spoke to an audience craving a rugged spirituality that does not back down to Saracens or infidels. Christendom had yielded too much prime real estate to the advance of Islam. Urban said the Turks were “Persian people, an accursed race,” and that warriors […]
There is a suffering which every Christian must endure if he is to be used by the Lord. The book of Hebrews describes this when we are told of Moses who chose “rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of […]
Among the Lord’s people who love and look for His personal coming again, there are differences of view as to the time and manner of that coming. These differences are not unimportant–no one who values divine truth could think that–but they need to be kept in perspective. The prime matter, surely, is whether we are […]
Today man has attempted to strip God of every attribute except love. By this, humanity assumes God will provide universal salvation on the last day, and until then will give freedom to allow the human race do as they choose. Abort your baby or euthanize your mother; nothing is said. Anything goes. God, they hope, […]
The land of Israel may have more museums per capita than any other country in the world. But of all the museums in the country, none can compare with the Shrine of the Book and its sacred treasure. Designed to mimic the clay lids of the jars that contained the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the […]
Until the middle of the last century, almost all we knew about the kings of Assyria was contained in the Bible, and in unreliable notices in the Greek historians. So mighty a monarch as Sargon was unknown to us, apart from the reference in Isaiah 20:1, and it was open for any critic to find […]
The Stundist movement began in 1858 when German believers began to actively present the gospel of Christ to Russian-speaking neighbors near the city of Odessa. The Germans had come into the area under a Homestead Act, but had been forbidden to proselytize among the Russian Orthodox. Some of these Protestants from Germany had settled on […]