In 1960, D. James Kennedy graduated from seminary and began preaching at the Coral Ridge Church in Fort Lauderdale, FL. After just eight months of ministry there, the congregation dwindled from 45 to 17 believers. Although he was very discouraged about what was happening, he would not give up. He realized the problem was that […]
God formed Adam, built Eve (as the Hebrew has it) and was well pleased with His work. The beautiful harmony was soon soured by sin, but Jehovah promised that the woman’s Seed would be the Victor. He commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful, to multiply, and fill the earth, which they started to do. […]
He was hurriedly walking down the street when he stopped to listen. He heard the message of the love of Jesus and trusted Him as his personal Saviour. When counseled, it was revealed that this man was on his way to commit suicide. His comment was that had that group of Christians not been there, […]
Henry Moorhouse (1840-1880) is called “the man that moved the man that moved the millions” referring to his influence with Dwight Lyman Moody. Who was the man they familiarly called “Harry”? Born in Manchester, his father was a kind, hardworking Christian who taught classes for the Methodist Sunday School. At twelve years of age, Henry […]
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 […]