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 […]
Hospitality: the act, practice, or quality of being hospitable; friendly and solicitous entertainment of guests. So says Webster’s New World Dictionary. Hospitality: PHILOXENIA, love of strangers (philos, loving, xenos, a stranger), is used in Rom. 12:13; Heb. 13:2, lit., be not forgetful of hospitality, writes W. E. Vine in An Expository Dictionary of New Testament […]
Steadfast, loyal, conscientious, true, committed. These are only a few words which help us to define faithfulness. Faithfulness produces both blessing and suffering. We all like blessing but tend to avoid suffering. Yet we cannot have one without the other. Proverbs 28:20 says, “A faithful man shall abound with blessings…” A good example of this […]
Many years ago I was invited at attend a Rotary luncheon in Plymouth, Michigan. Three men spoke briefly, one of whom I had the joy of meeting personally–namely, the late Mr. Stanley S. Kresge, a son of the well-known S. S. Kresge who founded the chain of stores bearing his name. At the luncheon the […]
The mills of God grind slowly, But they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands watching, With exactness grinds He all. The writer of these words had learned a little of the God of Patience. It is no cause for wonder that perfect patience should be combined with almighty power, that the Almighty God […]
Conceivably in the year 1998 God will press the button to start in motion a series of events according to His plan. For the attentive Christian the anticipation of these prophecies generates massive repercussions on his demeanor. The Rapture Before the greatest tribulation the earth has ever experienced, the Lord will snatch away His people […]
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 […]
I turned 40 on January 19th of this year. It was a Lord’s Day morning. My thoughts were everywhere except my birthday. Actually, 40 is a lot younger than you think once you arrive there. Over breakfast I talked to my family about the glorious return of Christ. I thought that was a fitting topic […]