Unless we’re careful about who’s in the room at the time, the mere mention of New Testament church truth can spark instant and hostile retaliation. “That’s divisive!” “Isn’t it arrogant to think that we’re right and everyone else is wrong?” “Aren’t there more important things to worry about?” In spite of the attitude behind them, […]
In September of 1978, I was nineteen but it seemed I was going on forty. I had lived my young life in debauchery. No sin was too great to attempt. Yet God had divine intentions for me, intentions of grace and love. I went to a local Baptist church on September 2, 1978, where I […]
As Paul contemplated the unity of all true believers, he burst into a sevenfold exclamation: “One body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one, faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Eph. […]
Over two years ago, I began a Bible study in our home with some of our closest friends. I was the music director in a large denominational church at the time, of which I was one of six founding members some ten years earlier. Growing from six members to eight hundred was no small feat. […]
During the summer of 1995, I began to have a desire to get closer to the Lord because I realized that, being 43 years old, my time was running out. I also realized that I was probably living in the last days, and that the Lord could come back anytime, so I really wanted my […]
It was on the evening of March 18, 1933, after some interested readers of our tracts invited us for a “mission” among them, that Noah Gratton and I took the train from Montreal on the long, slow journey to the little station at Albanel, in the province of Quebec. It was Patrick St. Gelais who […]
There are now more fortune tellers in France than there are medical doctors. Their evening TV offers news, weather, sports…and your horoscope reading. Wicca is one hot item (if you will excuse the word association) and almost every bookstore has its ample supply of New Age books. To the student of the Bible, none of […]
Do we really have reason to believe that the coming of the Lord Jesus is near? Yes, more reasons than any generation in the history of the church has ever had. Let me list a few. The nation of Israel says that His coming is near (Mt. 24:32-33; Ezek. 36:24-25). What we saw in 1948 […]
The New Testament presents the coming of the Lord Jesus as the hope, comfort, and encouragement of the Christian. Our hope does not rest in reforming the world, in politics, science, medical advances, technology, or education. We are waiting: “for His Son from heaven” (1 Thess 1:10). “For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from […]