Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), “the father of faith missions,” deeply influenced the founders of the China Inland Mission, the North Africa Mission, and particularly his own brother-in-law, George Muller. Anthony was the only son in a family of six. His mother was gentle and talented. His father was an aggressive businessman, who lost much of […]
“Christmas in July,” a local bar promoted, was an occasion not to celebrate the birth of the Saviour of the world but rather as an excuse to have its patrons drink more alcohol. I was part of the revelry that night, even joining others in the irreverent singing of Christmas hymns. But the “peace on […]
Our glorious Lord is the foundation of all the work of God in every age; the source of every blessing for His people of all times; the unique element of cohesion in the whole universe; whether physical or spiritual, historical or moral, on Him everything depends. He is the One in whom: “all the fullness […]
Dan was a mountain of a man. He could drink anyone else under the table on the university campus where he attended. He was not afraid to take anybody on. He usually won–until he decided to challenge the group of Christians who had an outreach in one of the dorms each Tuesday night. The Christians […]
More and more I am made to feel that Christ does not have His proper place among the children of God. He is not the object. It is either a doctrine, a dogma, a party, my experience–something beside Christ. We seem possessed with much the same spirit that actuated Peter on the mount when he […]
When the vitality of the Word of God is missing from the pulpits, the vacuum has always been filled, sometimes by eloquence, by joke-telling, by man’s philosophies, or by anecdotes. Almost anything has been pulled in to fill the void, but the godly have shunned such froth. In many ways, the setting that Savonarola spoke […]
We understand a miracle to feed 5,000 or to raise the dead, certainly, but for a lost axe? The young man knew its importance. With the axe head gone, his means of serving the Lord and His people and being able to do the things expected of him were gone as well. Now others would […]
The Big Stony River is just to the left. We are walking upstream on a well-worn game trail. Behind us, momentarily hidden in clouds, rises the massive bulk of Mount McKinley–North America’s highest peak. Miles ahead, at the moment unseen in the morning mist, in the mountains near the headwaters of the Big Stony, is […]
When life goes on well, self-sufficient complacency toward the Lord is apt to creep in. There is failure to feel the need for consistency in prayer. But when a critical issue looms, impossible to solve humanly, it results in a hurry-up call to get serious in prayer. There must be a deeper understanding of what […]