“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 Paul had been anxious to hear from Titus how the Corinthian church had received his first letter. Had they...
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you say to your family? I am sure you would use the time to say important things. You might prepare them for life without you, warning them of the dangers ahead, and assuring them of your love. When my wife Susan...
When the children of Israel came through the Red Sea, they immediately entered the wilderness. What they encountered and experienced there was intended to engender and mature their faith. Their hunger made them seek, their sicknesses made them pray, and their fears...
On December 18, 1978, the Lord Jesus Christ saved me from my sins and myself. I was just a month past my 21st birthday and had been aware of a painful emptiness in my life since I was 10 or 11 years old. Watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969, I wondered...
It is related of a celebrated general, that when, at the close of a great martial triumph, he surveyed from an elevated spot the field of battle and saw his victorious troops pursuing the utterly routed enemy, he was heard in exultation to exclaim, “This is...
A New Ministry “This could be their last hope” said a brother when he heard my wife Cathie and I were asked to be the “chaplains” at Lookout Ridge Retirement Home in Fonthill, Ontario. It was 2009 and a new retirement home was just about to open. A few days before the...
In Scripture, the term “redemption” has a very broad application. It is used for the process of buying back the personal property of inheritance and of persons (Lev. 25:51-52; Ruth 4), the ransom of a man’s soul (Ps. 49:8), salvation, justification, and forgiveness of...
A first gathering of believers along the lines that have marked the Brethren Movement from the very beginning, occurred in Ireland, in the winter of 1827-1828. This “first meeting of “the Brethren” was held in Fitzwilliam Square,”1 in the city of Dublin, Ireland....
Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians is best understood to be a general letter to all assemblies, rather than specifically to one local church. It was probably intended to be widely circulated. The letter is certainly applicable to every believer and lays out important...
One of the most mysterious statements by our Lord came on the first evening following His resurrection. Meeting privately with His disciples, He commissioned them for the task of world evangelization (v.21). Having breathed on them, He stated, “Receive the Holy...
Feeding the Flock Conference March 17-20, 2025America’s Keswick, Whiting, NJ Open to both men and women, the annual Feeding the Flock conference will be held at America’s Keswick in Whiting, NJ. Brothers Lee Brainard (ND), Sam Mikhael (Bahamas), and Keith Keyser (PA)...
Glory to Thee, Thou Son of God most High,All praise to Thee!Glory to Thee, enthroned above the sky,Who died for me.High on Thy throne, Thine ear, Lord Jesus, bendAs grateful hearts now to Thyself ascend. Deep were Thy sorrows, Lord, when heaven...
“For He Himself is our peace…” Ephesians 2:14 There is a well-known story of a Canadian missionary couple working with Indonesian tribal groups in the 1960’s who became increasingly frustrated with the tribes’ treacherous actions. When the missionaries threatened to...
In its maturing development, the “Brethren Movement,” with which many of our readers identify, was Biblicist and dispensational in its theology. It took its cue from the Scriptures itself, as opposed to Calvinism or other such man-made systems. Its driving force was...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and theWord was God. He was in the beginning with God.” (John 1:1-2) “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and...
Psalm 14:1 says: “The fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, There is none who does good.” As I was waiting for sentencing to go up state for my heinous felony, the chaplain at the county prison told me,...
Few ministries provide such unique opportunities to preach the gospel and intimately minister to individuals as a prison ministry. Permission was given for New Life Prison Ministries to begin a ministry at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre (Ontario, Canada) in the...
Mankind’s history is the tale of two men: the first Adam and the last Adam. The former linked humanity with sin, condemnation, and death. The latter links them with righteousness, purity, and immortality (Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:46-57). This second man was not merely...
In 2018, the US National Spelling Bee was won by Karthik Nemmani, an eighth grader from McKinney, Texas, who correctly spelled “koinonia.” Koinonia is a word that has been transliterated into our English language from the original Greek. It means...
Each Lord’s Day, assemblies of Christians all around the world will be gathered together unto the Lord Jesus Christ, to remember Him in His death and to worship both Father and Son for their unspeakable Gift. In so doing, the New Testament pattern for the gatherings...