Articles: 14
Reflections on the church as the body of Christ, its calling, fellowship, and witness.
Jesus, upon His ascension back into His heavenly home, gave a final directive to His disciples, both to those physically present as He disappeared into the clouds, and to the myriad of believers who would come to know…
It is August 2020, over four months since the coronavirus pandemic started, and it is still affecting our lives. People are still getting sick. The government and its decisions continue to be at the center of a lot of…
What is Help In our time, many conservative Anabaptist churches are facing a seemingly unstoppable epidemic. More and more people are coming forward with struggles they don’t know how to handle. Many times, when a church…
Despise not prophesyings. -1 Thessalonians 5:20 A certain nostalgia surrounds the thought of prophecy, for it conveys the mystery of prediction. The prophets of old were passionate, persistent, and powerful men, who…
Introduction Many churches today are facing the pressure of dealing with the world’s music trying to get into the church. Some of it is coming in the back door, but some of it is also being introduced in the front door…
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…
It’s a good thing author David Bercot was not born in 1730. He could very well be sporting some chicken feathers by now. I mean, you don’t tell American patriots that they are really rebellious rabble rousers who should…
Just as no living man can be buried with a dead man, so no one who is still living to sin can be buried together in baptism with Christ, who has died to sin. Therefore, those who are hastening to baptism ought to take…
The church at Ephesus had many good works, they had much knowledge, but they had left the first love. How do we leave our first love? It seems we too easily get the idea we’ve lost our first love and don’t know how to…
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus”. --Acts 4:13 The contemporary moral climate…
In the middle of the third century, a severe plague swept through North Africa, killing tens of thousands of people – Christian and pagan alike. In some places, the dead outnumbered the living. Some thought the end of…
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…
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…
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…
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