“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...