Is the rapture of the Church the next thing on the divine agenda? Could it not be possible that the Great Tribulation will intervene? Does it really matter? Some go so far as to suggest a kind of prophetic agnosticism, saying that good men have differed on the subject, so there is no way we […]
My name is Carl Greer. I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 6, 1952, but lived most of my life in southeast Louisiana. I grew up in a religious family that talked about God and prayed often. At a young age, I was baptized into a denominational church that my parents attended for a […]
There are seasons in life when everything seems to be shaking. Old landmarks are crumbling. Venerable foundations are upheaved in a night and are scattered abroad as dust. Guiding buoys snap their moorings, and go drifting down the channel. Institutions which promised to outlast the hills collapse like a stricken tent. Assumptions in which everybody […]
Philippians chapter 3 is one of the most outstanding chapters in Holy Writ on the great theme of Christian endeavor. Paul first enumerates those things that had placed him in the front rank of Jewish culture and learning, things that had made him to excel in religious attainment and knowledge, and then, at a stroke, […]
The storm warnings are out. The nations, like a troubled sea, foam and lash against each other (Isa. 57:20). In the midst of the gale lies Eretz Israel. More fearsome waves have crashed upon its shores than anywhere else in the world. Riding at anchor amid the Judean hills is the enigmatically named “City of […]
The teenage rascals had caught “Rodney,” the old roan horse, and were leading him to the door of the large tent. The boys, whispering, moved quickly. One pulled Rodney’s head through the tent entrance. The other boy lifted its tail and put a bull thistle under it. Within the canvas walls the meeting was in […]
In response to an article on the life of F. S. Arnot in our March 1991 issue, we were sent a copy of a news item published in Britain at the time of one of Arnot’s visits to his homeland. Since one of the purposes of this magazine is to seek to stir up evangelistic […]
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18). “The heavens shall pass away . . . the earth also and the works that are therein […]
While Alexander Marshall was preaching in a country district, near Orillia, using a tent, the prejudice among the people was terrible. Within two thousand yards from the Gospel tent lived an Irishman, who was a very devout Episcopalian. It was beneath his dignity to go to the tent, but one Sunday afternoon as he was […]