A few years ago I was preaching a series on “Dispensationalism” when an elder’s wife came and said that those things were too theological for her. A young man at the same meeting came and said he had never heard of the term “Dispensations” before, even though he had been raised in an assembly. The […]
Perhaps your ears, my elderly friend, have become dull, and you no longer hear distinctly the sweet sound of the voice of your fellow-saints. Your communications with them are so rare and so difficult. But comfort yourselves. Soon, in the Paradise of God, you shall hear the sweet songs of the saints and of the […]
Perhaps your ears, my elderly friend, have become dull, and you no longer hear distinctly the sweet sound of the voice of your fellow-saints. Your communications with them are so rare and so difficult. But comfort yourselves. Soon, in the Paradise of God, you shall hear the sweet songs of the saints and of the […]
Would it not be wonderful to celebrate the Second Advent of the Lord instead of His first? Let me illustrate how near it must be from Elijah’s last journey in 2 Kings 2. The last places he visited once knew Jehovah’s power and presence, but no more. GILGAL (v. 1) In the conquest of Canaan, […]
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: […]
The Lord by His grace and mercy saved my wife, Betty, and me eighteen years ago. We heard the gospel at a home Bible study that I was invited to attend. I went that evening, but would not allow Betty to go, because I didn’t know who these people were. So I went alone. That […]
Canadians and Americans pause around this time of year to give a perfunctory acknowledgement that, no matter how much we complain the rest of the year, we are richly blessed. But thanksgiving is a dangerous attitude for the West’s ever-increasing population of agnostics. Agnostics must be careful. After all, gratitude infers that there is Someone […]
The apparently interminable genealogies of the early chapters of the first book of Chronicles are suddenly broken by the abrupt reference in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 to the prayer of Jabez. Apart from this solitary mention, nothing is known of Jabez, but the character and life of the man can well be judged from the record […]
It was a quiet day in Herr Schmidt’s grocery shop, but outside it was pouring. The time was soon after the Second World War. It seemed just an ordinary autumn day. Herr Schmidt was looking along his shelves and noting what he needed to get to restock them, when the doorbell rang while he was […]