The Scotland of today was at one time the poorest and most backward nation of Europe, bullied and bantered over by France and England. No one could appreciate the changes in Scotland, spiritually or otherwise without recognizing the Protestant Reformation in Scotland under John Knox, and no one can appreciate that Reformation without recognizing the […]
Genetic engineering is the technology of modifying the genes of an organism to bring about change. Scientists have done this in a sense for millennia through selective breeding to increase crops, create cows that would give more milk and so on. Indeed, Jacob did this more than thirty-five hundred years ago (Gen. 30:41-42). However, it […]
One of her sisters said, “She taught me how to love.” A co-worker at Rest Haven Homes said, “She demonstrated what true faith in God really was.” But as far as I was concerned, Grace taught me, well, grace. Grace J. Pell was co-founder of Gospel Folio Press and Rest Haven Homes in Grand Rapids. […]
Technically, I’m a one-aunt man. My father had one sister, Ellen, who was caught Home as a child, and my mother had only one sister, my dear Aunt Helen. Through the years she has borne more than her share of sorrow with the regal dignity of the King’s daughter that she is. Her countenance reflects […]
Each member of the human race usually begins life weeping, for weeping is one of the first signs of life in a newly born babe, and the entire path of life is in measure soaked with tears. We may rest assured that this is not God’s purpose for man. No, an enemy has done this. […]
It is a present possibility to learn of God in a special way while living in a realm of chaos, challenge, and sin. We cannot so learn to know our God in heaven, for those elements which afflict the flesh here are not to be found there. We shy away from earth’s problems. It is […]
I suppose nobody ever naturally did like the idea of getting older, at least after he had left school. There is a sense of oppression and depression about it (Eccl. 1:4-5). The irresistible, inevitable onward march of moments and years without the possibility of one instant’s pause–a march that even while on the uphill side […]
In Romans 14, Paul is dealing with the differences among the Christians of his day concerning food. Some from Jewish backgrounds were still sensitive about dietary issues. From birth they had been warned not to eat certain foods that were forbidden by the Law. They also still wanted to observe special days that had been […]
Our Redeemer was in the Garden of Gethsemane. His hour was come. He knew that His agony was fast approaching Him, and He felt a longing for two or three of His disciples near Him. But even that slight support was to be denied our Saviour in that awful hour. His three chosen disciples were […]