Choosing a story is so hard. I could tell of the young religious philosophy major, Valerie, with beautiful but sad eyes. And I had to look at her eyes because her tongue and the area below her lip were pierced. They were a bit distracting because they kept clinking when she talked. But the Lord […]
The church has been afflicted with a very confused message on evangelism. Evangelism is, in the minds of many, work done by a select group of freelance Christians we call evangelists, who in their own quaint way go out to reach the lost and bring them to the local assembly for teaching and fellowship. After […]
While going to the doors in a middle class area a woman greeted me on her front porch with a question, “Who do you want me to vote for?” (Local elections were that evening.) I replied, “I do want you to cast a vote for someone, but He is not on today’s ballot, His name […]
“What do you think of Christ?” The same question kept ringing out. What do you think of Christ? Where will you spend eternity? Contrary to popular opinion, I had never preached in the open-air on a campus before. I had been roped into it. I had been thinking, I’m going to go down there with […]
An increasing number of evangelicals are finding themselves drawn into a bitter conflict. In this struggle between light and darkness, it is reported that the very future of Christianity is at risk. All the resources of the Church have been marshalled against this formidable foe. This opposer of Christianity is not a modern enemy–surprisingly, it […]
The writers of Scripture use many descriptive titles for the place where the redeemed will be forever. Heaven is the one most commonly used by God’s people to name their eternal Home. We are told that “the Lord was received up into heaven” (Mk. 16:19), and Stephen “looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the […]
Fathers in the Bible have a mixed record. Some were godly, and so were their children. Some were godly, but their children were not. Some were ungodly, but their children were godly and some were ungodly, and so were their children. God Himself is portrayed like a father in the Old Testament, and the New […]
This surely must be one of the most amazing statements for a sinner, saved by grace, to read. To be brought into fellowship with those who comprise the family of God is a marvel at which angels must wonder. Then to read that this fellowship embraces God Himself, the Father, and His beloved Son staggers […]
Donald Munro (1839-1908) was born in the county Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. His parents, James and Hannah Munro, held the “old Puritan theology of the highlands that conversion is a necessity, the new birth a work of the Spirit in the soul, and the gospel the means used to effect it.” They […]