Articles: 467
Practical reflections on following Jesus in everyday choices, work, and relationships.
Dear single sisters: As an older single lady, it has been on my heart for some time to write to encourage you in cultivating a heart for your home. I have been blessed to be a stay-at-home daughter for almost thirty…
Men of thought, men of action. Men who are not for sale. Men who are honest to the heart’s core. Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others. Men whose consciences are as steady as the…
Two sparrows. Two sets of wings, two sets of legs, two sets of eyes, two hearts, two brains. Yet the difference between the two birds is so vast. It is the difference between life and death. One sparrow has all the form…
Many, many years ago in ancient times there lived a man, a rather hairy man, so hairy that his arms were not unlike the back of a young goat. This man lived in a place called Canaan. He was an excellent and skilled…
It is at that day proud and luxurious Christians shall learn that God is no respecter of persons; that all sects and names shall be swallowed up in these two kinds, sheep and goats, just and unjust; and the very…
The following beautiful language is found in Isa. 51:3: “For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy…
The smells of love feast are indelibly stamped into my memory. As a young boy, I sat on an old wooden bench just outside the kitchen of the meetinghouse and watched my mother cut bread for soup and make coffee. The…
“Do you feel that!” asked my coworker with surprise. As she spoke, I looked around the library and noticed that the whole room was slightly shaking back and forth. Soon we all realized that we were experiencing an…
The disciples were brought up in the Jewish Church, the law of which allowed killing in self-defense and in wars under divine direction. When Jesus called them to follow Him, He sent them out as “lambs among wolves” and…
This is a time of great reason to war against the enemies of our soul: a time to suffer, a time to sacrifice, a time to groan, a time to die. We are well aware that it has been given to the beast to make war against the…
Let me take you back 33 years ago when a young man and a young lady were courting. They lived about 600 miles apart and most of their courting was done by letter. One day, after about a year of courtship, mostly by mail,…
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Ps. 101:3 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it:…
“Say, do you actually believe in life after birth?” the one twin asks. “Yes, definitely! Inside we grow and are prepared for what will come outside,” answered the other twin. “I believe that’s nonsense!” says the first.…
Monarchy vs. Democracy One day I was talking with a coworker about the power of God to judge and rule the world. My coworker declared, “I think God is twisted to have destroyed the whole earth with a flood, including…
Last month my wife and I had the rare opportunity of visiting Europe on an Anabaptist Heritage tour, doing research and filming for future historical projects. What a blessing this was! To be there at the very church in…
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Jn. 12:24 When Jesus brought the gospel to Palestine, it was a world…
There are some things in life that are seemingly inexplicable. You try and try to figure them out, and then you just take them for granted, and finally just laugh at them and go on. I am thinking specifically of our…
For God neither made the sheep scarlet or purple, nor taught the juices of herbs and shellfish to dye and color wool. Neither did He arrange necklaces with stones set in gold, and with pearls woven together or clustered,…
Our beloved Bible holds the record of being the most printed and translated book, having been translated into over 1200 languages. It also holds the title to being the book with the widest range of opinions concerning…
I and the lad will go yonder and worship. Ge. 22:5 Do you believe that we were created for worship? Revelation 4:10-11 tells us, “The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him…
“... all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?” He is the greatest man who ever lived! He is the most honorable man who ever lived! He is the most noble of men, the most dedicated of men, the most venerable of men,…
The privilege It is the privilege of every believer to actively pursue conformity to the image of Christ. It is an amazing honor that finite human beings can be recreated to not only be partakers of the divine nature as…
Introduction In recent past issues, we at The Heartbeat of the Remnant have taken the offensive against the invasion of Protestant theology into Anabaptist and other “kingdom churches.” As expected, this has raised the…
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