The expectations we have for our elders seem to far outstrip our awareness of our responsibilities to our overseers. To know them. “We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you” (I Thess. 5:12). How many wish that their elders would take more […]
Jesus had read a startling statement concerning the coming Messiah in the synagogue at Nazareth. Then He applied it to Himself. But this is the carpenter’s son, they had said. In unbelief “they led Him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built.” Did you ever wonder just exactly what the geography […]
Everyone who has a book written about himself is not of towering proportions. But there are others whose lives and works have been so useful for Christ’s kingdom that words such as “mighty,” “great,” “monumental,” and “profound” do not sound at all out of place. Words such as “giant” must be used sparingly. Yet Frederick […]
What is the greatest need among assemblies today? A variety of answers might be given to that question, but certainly one of them would be the subject of leadership, its form and quality. We seem to be clear as to the form of leadership required by the New Testament. Plurality is the key word — […]
In his second epistle, Peter describes the condition of professing Christendom and the unbelieving world as existing at the end of the age. Two particular forms of evil are recorded: first, in chapter 2, the presence of false teachers propagating unsound doctrine, accompanied by wicked deeds, prominently characterizes the last days of Christendom; second, in […]
Am I instructed to be involved in home visitation? Should our assembly work out a practical approach to this ministry? In some quarters, the subject of visiting in the home brings up doubts, fears, and many questions in the hearts of God’s people. However, we do have principles from the Word of God that would […]
At about 6,000 feet we were crossing into Ugandan airspace heading for Entebbe. The azure sky was punctuated with cottony puffs of cumulus. The earth below was deep, rich green. The rains had started. But everything was not as peaceful as the scenery. President Idi Amin had ordered the expulsion of all Asians, limiting them […]
There are, it seems to me, three kinds of pillars. Some are merely for decoration. Superfluous structurally, they are there nonetheless to give the appearance of strength and stability. There is a famous one like that in the south of Spain. The architect designed an arch that was thought to be too wide to support […]
“In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands” (2 Cor. 11:32-33). How often great issues in the out-working of the divine plan have seemingly […]