Any time that a factory, or refinery, or mass transportation facility, or banking system, or even a major retail store shuts down, the lives of a certain number of people will be affected. When the government of a powerful nation is shut down, it may not only affect the lives of the citizens of that…
Editor’s Note: Brother Dennis submitted this article as one possible interpretation of the passages he explores. Your editor has included the article not as an endorsement of Brother Dennis’s interpretation, but as an interpretation worthy of consideration. Your editor encourages the reader to study the matter further. We read in Romans 11:26, “And so all…
Editor’s Note: Brother Dennis submitted this article as one possible interpretation of the passages he explores. Your editor has included the article not as an endorsement of Brother Dennis’s interpretation, but as an interpretation worthy of consideration. Your editor encourages the reader to study the matter further. We read in Romans 11:26, “And so all…
It happened on one of our tours of the Bible Lands some years ago. There is usually very limited rainfall in the Judean desert and down by the Dead Sea, but on this particular day there was an unusually torrential rain. Our tour bus was traveling southward along the west side of the Dead Sea. …
There is no one word adequate to fully explain the plan of salvation. The Scriptures mention so many different things on both God’s part and man’s part that together are involved in our salvation. Certainly, we cannot be saved without God’s grace and our faith (Ephesians 2:8). Nor could there be salvation without the sacrifice…
After God sent ten terrible plagues on the land of Egypt and opened a path through the Red Sea so the people of Israel could escape the cruel bondage of Egypt; after He led them day after day with a pillar of cloud, and night after night with a pillar of fire; after He provided…
For thousands of years now men have known that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of their sins. The story has been told from generation to generation that God assured Abraham that He would not destroy Sodom if ten righteous souls could be found there, but alas, there were not even ten. Angels, appearing as…
One of the outstanding features of the early New Testament church was the zealous spirit of evangelism that seemed to fill the heart of every saint. The same enthusiasm with which Peter preached on the day of Pentecost was a driving force in the lives of the brethren. Even to this day men are impressed…