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I present to you today what I feel is a great need in many believers’ lives. I fear that many of us have absorbed way too much of this individualism that is so prominent in our land. This is a call to lay down our own…
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The Beauty of “We”
I saw an interesting article this evening. It was about the Anabaptists and had a sentence that I’ve been thinking about: ‘I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have been part of the “we” of Michael…
A Singing Heart
“I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Psalm 104:33 Here are some true examples of what a song can do. I was in the middle of the airport, but there it was—the…
Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats?
An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it during the past few years. It has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil. It has…
Divorce and also Remarriage in the Early Church
After the death of the apostles, Christianity continued to grow and flourish, even though it was beset by poverty and persecution. When we read the writings of the early Church, we enter a world that is in some ways very…
Monsters of Cruelty
Now that I am a father, and know the affection of a parent—would I not defend from every danger—would I not bestow every truly good thing—would I not implore every blessing—on my tender children? Would I not nourish…
When God Complained
For us to understand God, He must speak to us in anthropomorphic terms. When He speaks to us of anguish, He must explain it in a way that we can understand. In Jeremiah 4:19-22, we have God crying out as if He were a…
BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES!
Pharisees Therefore, when one speaks of justification through Christ, one must also speak of that faith, which cannot be without works of repentance—yea not without love, which is an anointing. For such an anointed…
Plain Speaking
Most professing Christians today have the mistaken notion that a man needs to go to seminary in order to be an effective preacher. However, the New Testament Christians had no seminaries. Yet, they raised up effective…
THE PRAYER MEETING IS DEAD!
APOSTOLIC PRAYING As we look to the biblical account of the book of Acts we see the striking theme of prayer throughout its testimony. We see in it apostolic prayer that depends on God, that is desperate before God. The…
Zwingli—Reformer
In a previous study of the Reformation in Switzerland, we looked at the birth of the Anabaptist movement, and the Schleitheim confession. Remaining was the question as to how fellow-Christians could become so intensely…
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Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try…
Preparing The Ground For REVIVAL
“See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.” Jer. 1:10 Of this six-fold commission, four injunctions…
Praying . . . till we PRAY
Dr. Moody Stuart, a great praying man of a past generation, once drew up a set of rules to guide him in his prayers. Among these rules is this one: “Pray till you pray.” The difference between praying till you quit and…
A Garment Of Patience
I find this story inspiring because the man remembered that God sees everything and allows no temptation above what we are able to bear. He knew that no matter how much he suffered here, his tormentors would be punished…
God Needs Praying Mothers
Though God is calling Christians everywhere to pray, this little article is specifically to call Christian mothers to daily, earnest, believing prayer. God said repeatedly, “Ask and you shall receive,” and He modeled the…
Life in Earnest
Either Christianity is the grossest deception that was ever palmed upon mankind, or else it is one which deserves the whole life and force and strength of every man who has been blessed by it! Some Christians live as…
Not Under Bondage
A few days ago I was at work when a nurse handed me a newspaper and pointed to a small article asking me what I thought about it. The article was about a radio station in West Virginia that boasted that it was “giving…
Optional Illusions
The title of this article is a play on words. A common term is optical illusion, which is defined as “a visual experience in which there is some kind of false perception of what is actually there”. It could be the…
RISE UP, O MEN OF GOD!
We planned and prayed and prepared for Leadership Seminar this year with lots of expectation. We converted our office into a bedroom to house our guests, and made the necessary preparations at work and at home to have…
Technology Dictates Morality
Technology dictates morality—really? Isn’t technology morally neutral? How can it dictate morality? Is not the reverse the truth: morality dictates technology? What is the truth here? Western society has been trained to…
Until the Daybreak
The night is dark, yet stars are studded Jewel-like on the midnight sky, Puffs of filmy clouds have scudded From the breezes’ evening sigh; On the wind a gentle calling Of a wooing nighttime bird; Dew, still falling,…
A Revival in Schleitheim
I would like to take you with me back in time almost 500 years to a little town in Switzerland called Schleitheim. But to understand the arena in which this revival took place one has to go back even earlier. From the…
Sacred Picklocks
Whenever you cannot understand a text, open your Bible, bend your knee, and pray over that text; and if it does not split into atoms and open itself, try again. If prayer does not explain it, it is one of the things God…
