How Important is the Family?
The answer seems obvious. Of course the family is important! Our western civilization is collapsing for this very reason: people have lost sight of the importance of the family. Leisure activities, career advancement, financial security, just about anything comes before...
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Five Widows
It is the privilege of some of us who are serving the Lord overseas to have praying for us some faithful elderly sisters, who give themselves unstintingly to the ministry of intercession. This ministry may be hidden from men, but...
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Raising Families in the West is Tough
Afghanistan: Non-Muslims are denied freedom of assembly, and open profession among refugees has often led to deaths. Islamic radicals rule the country. Azerbaijan: Although Azerbaijan officially guarantees religious freedom for all, the nationalists are becoming more Islamic and anti-Christian. Bangladesh: One of...
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Does God Speak Today?
The most recent issue of National Geographic magazine has an article with the latest photos from the Hubble telescope. Included is one shot taken of an area of the universe once thought to be relatively empty. The author of the...
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Fearing God: Malachi
God sent His prophet Malachi to reveal the missing ingredient in Israel's national life. The Lord asked the question, "Where is Mine honor?" and "Where is My fear?" The word "fear" both in the Old and New Testaments means "awe-inspiring,"...
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Prophet with a Poet’s Heart: Nahum
The identity of this prophet is uncertain. Nahum calls himself the Elkoshite. Elkosh was probably situated in Galilee; certainly Nahum was familiar with this particular part of Palestine. It is most probable that the prophet moved into Judah after the...
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The Messenger and His Message: Haggai
Haggai's messages were addressed to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the high priest, clearly proving that the prophet was sent to the remnant of the Jews that returned to Jerusalem in the days of Cyrus, king of Persia,...
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Edom’s Doom: Obediah
How vividly Sir George Adam Smith describes Edom in The Book of the Twelve Prophets. The purple mountains, into which the wild sons of Esau clambered, run out from Syria upon the desert, some hundred miles by twenty of porphyry and...
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Hosea’s Days and Ours
Idolatry and wickedness were rampant in Bethel and in Gilgal, the centers of Israel's worship in the days of Hosea. Those two places of hallowed memories were now places of Ephraim's apostasy from God. Bethel--the house of God--the prophet now...
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