The Saviour has a sword! Our world is covered in war. Violence is the ongoing daily pursuit of millions. The Church is also engaged in a fierce conflict, a spiritual war. The Pergamum saints were fighting a vicious battle on the front lines and were engaging the devil, the flesh, and the world from all […]
My maternal great-grandparents came to Canada in 1888 from the northeast coast of Scotland where for generations they had been fishermen on the North Sea. They settled in Montreal at first, at that time a city of 175,000. Montreal’s death rate was highest in the country—33 per thousand in 1884. In 1885, over 3,000 died […]
The Christian’s hope of the Lord’s return is a certain hope, “an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,” a hope “laid up in the heavens”; “He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.” But more than this, it is a practical hope, influencing every part of the life, energizing and purifying it. […]
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible , and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible […]
There are two fundamental questions on the issue of imminency. First, did the New Testament saints believe in it? And second, what does imminence really mean? The first question should be easy to answer. If the New Testament believers were waiting expectantly for the Lord to return, surely it would say so in the epistles. […]
“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Dan. 12:4). Commenting on this, Christian scientist Sir Isaac Newton said, “Personally, I cannot but believe these words concerning the end of the times. One […]
What an amazing and exciting book! At times it is tedious, slow going, with detailed instructions for the building of the temple and the restoration of Israel to the land. And to our western, scientific minds much is mysterious, veiled in symbolism. One school of thought believes that Israel has no future as God’s people, […]
The attentive reader of the New Testament will find three solemn and weighty facts presented. First, the Son of God has come into this world and gone away; second, the Holy Spirit has come down to earth, and is here still; and, third, the Lord Jesus is coming again. These are the three great subjects […]
Christians have long wanted a book that seriously reviews the teachings of Bill Gothard (1935– ) and his Institute in Basic Life Principles, originally called the Institute of Basic Youth Conflicts (1966–present). Christians alternately adore and vilify this winsome hermit and the teachings of his Institute. In the heyday of Bill Gothard’s ministry in the […]