A British nobleman preaching the Gospel in Sweden some years ago was asked by a lady of the country to what Church he belonged. “To the Church of Christ,” was his reply. “Yes, but to what branch?” she insisted. “Madam,” he answered, “I do not belong to any branch, I belong to the ‘Trunk.’” This […]
While the political landscape is being altered in a country, how often widespread spiritual renovations also occur. This has been true in Eastern Europe in the last decade. It was also true of the work of God in Italy in the last century. Teodoro Pietrocola Rossetti performed a key part in that spiritual work. He […]
Money is power. It has power greatly to extend one’s opportunities, influence, and fruitfulness. With equal truth it may be said to multiply one’s responsibilities. Certainly its possession and use increase one’s dangers spiritually. The Scriptures present amazing contrasts according to an individual’s use of this possession common to all! It may be: “filthy lucre” […]
That the early Christians observed “the ordinances” (1 Cor. 11:2) of the baptism of believers and the Lord’s Supper is clear to any unbiased reader of the New Testament. The observance of the Breaking of Bread, otherwise spoken of as the Communion, or “the Lord’s Supper” (1 Cor. 11:20), was instituted by the Saviour almost […]
I am sitting in the Senai Airport just outside the city of Jahore Bahru in Malasia. The air is sultry. If I wasn’t feeling melancholy (and therefore poetic), I’d say it was merely hot and sticky. The local flora is breathtaking but I do not know the names. I cannot read the signs. I am […]
It began as a visit, a brief stop on the journey, and became the labor of his life. James Clapham, a New Zealand school teacher, stopped in what was then called Palestine enroute to Britain. But, like the apostle Paul at Athens, the desperate spiritual need gripped his soul and would not let him go. […]
Hello, this is Dr. B. calling. I have the results of your blood tests, and I would like to have some more tests done.” “OK. When should I come to your office?” “I would want to have these done in the hospital, Mr. Cameron.” “Will this not take some time to have the arrangements made, […]
“And that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue . . . that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them” (Numbers 15:38-39). People have always made and used outward aids to their memory–things to enable them to remember. Sir Walter Scott […]