Evelyn Johnson first noticed it a year previously. There was a problem in her throat–hoarseness and difficulty in swallowing, and at the same time there was a pronounced weakness in her right leg. Not to worry; perhaps if she waited, it would go away. When it didn’t, she went to the doctor, fearing that there […]
Buffalo, New York, sits at the east end of Lake Erie. The windward end. The prevailing winds sweep across the 9,910 square mile (25,670 sq. km.) expanse of the lake and, drawing up moisture as they travel, are more than willing to bestow their rain- (or snow-) laden bounty on the city. For some reason, […]
Edmund Hamer Broadbent (1861-1945) was the tidy-looking English gentleman with a bookish side who discovered ways of slipping into and out of countries that others just assumed were “closed doors.” He was not a big man, and his pleasant, easygoing manner would not have conjured in your mind the picture of the fearless missionary. Evidently […]
Most of us sincerely want the full life but we don’t want the steps that lead to it. We want the crown but not the cross. We want the throne of glory but are unwilling to ascend the altar of sacrifice. The life of the Lord Jesus was the life of fulfillment. It was the […]
Hebrews 11 brings the varied phases of faith before us, and in verses 24 through 30 we have the “refusing, choosing, esteeming, and forsaking” of Moses, the man of God. The Refusing “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.” He was brought up there […]
The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer. I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from […]
Chapters 12-14 of 1 Corinthians were intended to instruct believers who had fallen into error regarding the gifts. The sign-gifts were being magnified out of all proportion to their true importance to the assembly. The gifts for help and edification, being less spectacular, were in danger of being slighted. It seems as if those who […]
Many who revere the Bible are sometimes quite rigid with their second most important book…the bank book. Nothing is so practical a test of our love for Christ and His work as our attitude to money and personal possessions. What a glimpse we have of the inner work of the Holy Spirit in the life […]
Every time my mother had a baby, she sent me to stay with her parents, and since I was the eldest of five, it meant that at least four times I lived with my grandparents. Sometimes I wondered if my mother had forgotten me. Once she left me there for nearly twelve months. However, I […]