Where does a revival start? My family and I reside in a small community in northern Ontario where the winters are long and cold, and twilight comes quickly as the sun dips below the horizon on a typical clear winter evening. Our home backs onto a protected acreage of thick birch and oak trees, intermixed […]
How does the Lord revive a church? When was the last time you heard of a church repenting? Not an unbeliever repenting and turning to Christ for salvation. Not a Christian repenting in order to go on for the Lord. But a local church? Such an event is so rare that even the thought of […]
Be careful what you eat (2 Kings 4:38-41)! As the return of the Lord draws near, the need for spiritual discernment among Christians is of the utmost importance. The devil knows that his time is short, and, as the last days come to a close, he will utilize every weapon in his arsenal to waylay […]
Blowing our cover In 1970, the United States Marshals Service established the Witness Protection Program. Recognizing that the dangers of testifying would frighten many witnesses into silence, the program was designed to encourage witnesses to testify by providing them with new names, new identities, and new homes to protect them from intimidation prior to their […]
“The glorious gospel of the blessed (happy) God” (1 Tim. 1:11). I. Salvation is found in receiving a Person: “But we preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor. 1:23). “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day” (2 Tim. 1:12). […]
“there they dwelt with the king for his work” (1 Chron. 4:23) The Chroniclers lived in the fourth century before Christ. They were, one may suppose, scribes of the order instituted by Ezra. Here and there, in the dry enumeration of names, we find an interjected sentence which lends itself to a spiritual application. As […]
How do you answer someone who points out seeming discrepancies in the four accounts? For many years the art of color printing presented serious difficulties, and good results were obtainable only by means of a costly and tedious process. At last, however, a method was developed known as the “four-color process” which made color printing […]
Aimless wandering is not leadership. If we aim at nothing, we will undoubtedly achieve it. Shepherds ought to have immediate goals for the assembly and a long term plan. They should be men of vision. This writer thinks they should have a meeting every six months in which the only thing on the agenda is, […]
Books that could light your fire. You can tell when the author of a book not only believes what he writes, but also has a passion for the subject. That’s how it is with the two books being reviewed in this column. TAKE THE CHALLENGE: The Life of George D. Campbell by George Campbell and […]