One of the many ways God cares for His people in this age is through shepherds or elders. This is God’s idea. We save ourselves a lot of mental stress when we accept this just as He presents it to us in the New Testament. To attempt to design some other scheme or program is […]
During the thrilling days of 1859-1860 often scores of urgent requests would come from different places at once to the Lord’s servants. So the revival spread through the Irish counties of Tyrone and Donegal, of Monaghan and Cavan, and later broke forth in County Armagh. By September of 1859 every part of Ulster was affected. […]
From his first days as a Christian in the Salvation Army, Harry Ironside had a deep passion for winning lost souls for the Lord. By the time he was nineteen, he was already preaching well over four hundred sermons a year in addition to dealing with countless individuals and directing the work of his company. […]
I want someone who knows the difference between the duties of a chef and a gardener serving my meals! In the process of providing a healthy and appetizing repast, there is the need for pitchforks, dirt, and compost–but not on my dinner table! In the same way there is a substantial difference between the energy […]
God cares for His people through gifted men* speaking His truth. It is true that those who publically preach the Word of God have an obligation to deliver the highest quality ministry to the best of their God-given ability. It is also true that listeners have an equal obligation to listen to the best of […]
“The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” And what were they called before that? It was nearly twenty years after the commencement of the Christian movement before this name was invented. Our text says, “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” They were called disciples before they received the name of Christians. You […]
“The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good” (Ps. 34:10). One might have pardoned David at such a moment in the wilderness of his life if some cloud of doubt or despondency had crept over his soul. But instead of that his words are […]
“We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done…That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they […]
Preaching has a place in Christianity which it has in no other religion. If it is true that preaching is the product of the church, it is also true that the church is the product of preaching. For the church did not spread in its earliest centuries through the sword or with the backing of […]