Peacemakers
Ephesians 4 could be called The Peacekeeping Treatise where we have the four essentials regarding peace. The first is the essential command to peace (vv. 1-3): "I...beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all...
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Expository Preaching
The importance and value of biblical preaching is illustrated in the experience of Ezra: "Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel" (Ezra 7:10)....
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127 Years Ago
The premiere issue of The Barley Cake (Jan. 1881), the first North American assembly magazine, announced the fifth Hamilton, ON, conference. By inference the first was held in 1877. Assessment of the conference, in the direct style of the editor, Donald...
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It’s Time
Obviously time is a relative commodity: a half hour in a hammock on a Saturday afternoon is hardly the same as a half hour in the dentist's chair. We call someone in Europe late on a Saturday night; they are...
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Connecting the Dots
When my children were young, they enjoyed books with pages full of nothing but black dots and numbers. As they connected the dots, an image would begin to appear. They were outlined pictures of simple things in life, yet, these...
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Sparks in Kentucky
During the summer of 1995, I began to have a desire to get closer to the Lord because I realized that, being 43 years old, my time was running out. I also realized that I was probably living in the last...
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A Long Thaw Begins
It was on the evening of March 18, 1933, after some interested readers of our tracts invited us for a "mission" among them, that Noah Gratton and I took the train from Montreal on the long, slow journey to the...
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A Sweet Aroma
We have always grown lilacs in our yard, looking forward each year for their heavenly-scented blossom announcing, "Spring is here again!" This year, for the first time, I decided to do an oil painting of a bloom from our favorite bush....
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The Great Mystery
This great mystery was officially, though not exclusively, revealed in Ephesians (chs. 2 and 3; see also Rom. 16 and Col. 2). In this epistle, the Church is mentioned nine times, and in each case in a special connection. An Eternal...
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