Articles: 215
Practical teaching on prayer, Scripture, self-discipline, and growth in the life of faith.
One who lets go of or leaves something is a “detached” person. Although one who has been abandoned may be called a detached person, the difference is that “abandoned” is passive (the action has been done to him) and…
Some time ago, while traveling through Virginia, I picked up a copy of “The Roanoke Times,” with a picture of Moammar Gadhafi on the cover. They quoted him as saying, “I am a fighter, a revolutionary from the tents. I…
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…
Philip and Betsy Hess live near Bethel, Pennsylvania, with their two children, Damaris and David. Philip works in dismanteling and rebuilding old barns. They attend a small, home-based fellowship, where they earnestly…
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all Thy quick’ning powers; Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. Look how we grovel here below, Fond of these trifling toys; Our souls can neither fly nor go…
I have a baptism to be baptized with ... Luke 12:50 One could fill a library with the books that have been written about the first two baptisms. In the life of Jesus, our Perfect Example, we find Him being baptized with…
Brethren, for anything to be truly accomplished, HE is going to have to do it. Period. We are sensing that more and more. Let me try to illustrate how we feel. A drop of oil … Sit with me in the seat of a plane that has…
Thomas von Imbroich (1533-1558), also known as Thomas the Printer, was a young minister in the Anabaptist movement. He had joined the movement only about four years before he wrote this letter from prison, to his wife.…
Rise up, My Love, and come away, My Fair One, come with Me; My love, My Dove, My Perfect One, For I have chosen thee. My arms will bear you upward, My strength will make you strong; My love for you is better, And this…
I will work, I will live, I will die for the Lord. I will not be attracted by this dead world! It is dying, it’s decaying, it is sinking into hell. Can you hear me, sleepy Christian, as I ring your rusty bell? There’s a…
Love is like a breath of heaven. 'Tis from God above. Blessed truths to us are given, when the Lord we love. Love has power that's victorious, even gives its life. Love can never be contentious; love despises strife.…
Across the will of nature Leads on the path of God; Not where the flesh delighteth The feet of Jesus trod. O bliss to leave behind us The fetters of the slave, To leave ourselves behind us, The grave-clothes and the…
We will borrow from John Bunyan’s literary practice of personifying human characteristics and give names to some familiar faces. First is the act of fretting—we will call him Mr. Worry. Do you ever worry about things…
Three times in the first two chapters of the book of Job, we find that Job was called a “perfect and upright man.” And two times God even comments that “there is none like him in the earth.” Job loved righteousness and…
I let a little sinful thought Dwell in my heart one day. I meant to play with it awhile And then send it away. Of course I kept it hidden well So none would ever know That I had entertained a guest Of character so low.…
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…
Introduction In the previous issue, we printed the tract on “have to” vs. “want to” obedience. The following tract was usually bound in the same Anabaptist books with the other one, and since the writing style is so…
Death sounds like a bad thing, doesn’t it? Ughhh … The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 2:15-17, “For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of…
The ungodly are saying that we drink something out of a bottle, and the devil himself has no idea what is in that bottle. Whoever drinks from the bottle isn’t happy [with the status quo] any more, acts differently, and…
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Titus 2:6 The following article is from an earlier age, a time far removed from our “instant society” and the “whoever has the biggest toys wins” mindset of our current…
Every person, when he first applies himself to the exercise of this virtue of humility, must consider himself to be a learner. He has to learn something that is contrary to his former thinking and habits of mind, and…
Obedience is of two kinds, “have to” and “want to.”1 The “want to” has its source in the love of the Father, even though no other reward should follow, yea even if the Father should desire to destroy His child. The “have…
Jehoshaphat was in sore distress. What to do!? The Ammonites, the Moabites, and the people of Mount Seir had ganged together against the children of Israel. 2 Chronicles 20:3 reads: “And Jehoshaphat feared, and set…
Some of you, my brethren, have no doubt known, at times, the following state: After a busy day spent in your duties to others, you finally stand alone with God. All the events of the day now seem as one empty turmoil.…
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