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News & Notices

News & Notices

2025 Northwest Spring Bible Conference May 16-18, 2025 1350 Garfield Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI The Christians at Northwest Gospel Hall invite you to join them for their Spring Bible Conference. Keith Keyser (PA) will be speaking on the Authority of Scripture. Lodging...

The Thorn

The Thorn

I stood a mendicant of GodBefore his royal throneAnd begged him for one priceless giftThat I could call my own.I took the gift from out his hand,But as I would departI cried, “But Lord! This is a thorn!And it has pierced my heart.This is a strange, a hurtful giftWhich...

The Lord’s Triumph

The Lord’s Triumph

“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...

I Need To Talk To You Before I Go

I Need To Talk To You Before I Go

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...

The Continuous Ministry of the Cross

The Continuous Ministry of the Cross

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...

The Conquest of Calvary

The Conquest of Calvary

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...

Last Stop Before Eternity

Last Stop Before Eternity

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...

ancestry.brethren Part 2

ancestry.brethren Part 2

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....

News & Notices

News & Notices

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)...

The Lord’s Triumph

Christ Our Peace

“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...

ancestry.brethren: Part 1

ancestry.brethren: Part 1

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...

Last Stop Before Eternity

Ripe Fields, Plentiful Harvests

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...