REMNANT Magazine

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Concise, searching reflections that challenge complacency and encourage faithful obedience.

Sharpened wordsAutumn 2024

From the Editor

Left or right, red or blue, liberal or conservative, fiscal accountability or social policies, Republican or Democrat? Every four years, as the strength of summer draws to a close and autumn puts on its glorious display,…

Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsSummer 2024

From the Editor

I can still smell the tantalizing cacophony of odors as I clutched my father’s strong hand, weaving our way through the masses of tourists that crowded the building. The vendors at the Green Dragon Farmer’s Market in…

Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsSpring 2024

From the Editor

Spring is my favorite time of the year. Everything is new. Hyacinths are trying their noble best to poke their buds through the cold constraint of the winter-bound earth. Migrating waterfowl bring new sounds as they honk…

Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsWinter 2024

From the Editor

January 21, 1525, was the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism. Five hundred years ago, a monumental event in the history of the Christian church occurred. A small group of radical Christians quietly gathered in the home of…

Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsAutumn 2023

From the Editor

Autumn. That time of year when it seems that all of creation, at least in the northern climes, puts on one final show of beauty and splendor that reflects the glory and majesty of the Creator God. One by one the last…

Interim editor, Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsSpring 2023

From the Editor

Greetings to one and all in our dear Saviour’s name, Jesus Christ. Another year has passed from the present into the annals of history. Nothing that we have said or done can be recalled and re-lived. Another year is…

Sharpened wordsWinter 2023

From the Editor

Greetings in the worthy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. As I gaze out across the barren January landscape, I can’t help but wonder what this new year will bring. Undoubtedly, it will bring a mixture of joy and sorrow,…

Edward Martin↗
Sharpened wordsSummer 2022

From the Editor

Greetings of love in the blessed name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many Christians have gone through a time of trial and testing during the past several years, yet we trust that each one is able to say with…

Curvin L Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsWinter 2022

From the Editor

Greetings of brotherly love to one and all. The year 2022 is almost gone. A lot has happened. Another year of devastating storms, floods, fires, earthquakes, wars, and rumors of wars. America has gone through another…

Curvin L. Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsFall 2020

From the Editor

Greetings of Christian love to each one. I trust that each of you are finding peace, joy, and contentment in the circumstances that God has allowed into your life. This year, 2020, has been quite interesting to say the…

Curvin L Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsSummer 2020

From the Editor

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We are trusting that each of you as our readers are doing well and continuing to trust the Lord. The pandemic has created a bit of a backlog for us, along with…

Curvin Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsSpring 2020

From the Editor

Greetings of love in the name of Jesus, our Savior, our Redeemer, and our Lord. When our last magazine issue went out, most things in the world seemed to be continuing quite normally. Suddenly, everything started…

Curvin Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsWinter 2020

From the Editor

Greetings of Christian love to each one. Hopefully, you have found Christ as the anchor for your soul and the solution to your difficulties. Another year is past and gone, and what a year it was… An unseen virus…

Curvin L Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsWinter 2019

From the Editor

Greetings of Christian love to all. The year of 2019 has been one of challenges and changes for us here at The Berean Voice. We realize this magazine issue is coming out much later than anticipated, for this we are…

Curvin Wenger↗
Sharpened wordsJuly/August 2013

Opening the Ancient Wells

For the last three weeks I have been on a very interesting trip to Eastern Europe. A small church group from the Czech Republic city of Auspitz (Hustopece) had requested Anabaptist preachers and historians to come to…

~Bro. Dean↗
MissionsMay/June 2013

Coca-Cola and the King

A few years ago when Daniel Kenaston, a missionary in West Africa, was home on furlough, he preached a sermon that really made me think. He told of a journey that he took deep into the bush to reach a remote African…

Dean Taylor↗
Sharpened wordsMarch/April 2013

Flying Too High?

In Greek mythology exists a strange fable of a man who met his death because he flew too close to the sun. The man’s name was Icarus. As the story goes, Icarus and his father were put in prison on the island of Crete.…

~Bro. Dean↗
Sharpened wordsJanuary/February 2013

An Ancient Message from Blank Paper

This has been a very busy time around here. About two months ago, packing up our household items and renting our house to a local brother, my family and I headed out West to Elmendorf Christian Community. Experiencing a…

~Bro. Dean↗
Sharpened wordsNovember/December 2012

The Matter is Quite Simple

“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we…

—Soren Kierkegaard↗
Sharpened wordsJanuary/February 2011

Untried Faith

Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her…

~Author unknown↗
Sharpened wordsJuly/August/September 2009

Too Timid to Tell the Truth

“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…

~A. W. Tozer↗
Christian LivingApril/May/June 2009

The Hammer

John Dan Miller felt a surge of anger as he approached a certain point on his regular weekend travel to and from Bloomfield, Ohio—the certain point just a short distance ahead where that sign was located! What would he…

Sharpened wordsApril/May/June 2009

The Window and the Mirror

A very rich young man went to see a rabbi in order to ask his advice about what he should do with his life. The rabbi led him over to the window and asked him: “What can you see through the glass?” “I can see men coming…

Spiritual exerciseJuly/August/September 2008

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…

by Don Kistler↗

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