There’s a tremendous sense among many that massive changes are at hand in our nation. History is predictable because sin is cyclical. Abundance breeds apathy, and apathy ultimately breeds anarchy. Every reformation country now lies in spiritual ruins. What happened in Sodom and Rome is now happening to us. But most pulpits are silent concerning...
THE TENDERHEARTEDNESS PROTOCOL
Harden not your hearts. Hebrews 3:8 Heart disease has been called the silent killer. Each year more women die from heart disease than from all types of cancer combined. One quarter of heart attacks suffered by men is unsuspected before they hit. One third of women who suffer heart attacks have no pain or symptoms...
WANTED: ROUGH-CUT MEN
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” Allegedly, the Antarctic adventurer Earnest Shackleton placed this ad in a London newspaper. Stories have emerged that over 5,000 men applied for this daring polar expedition. On August 8, 1914...
THE EXTRAORDINARY FATHER DOES NOT WIN EVERY BATTLE, BUT HE WINS THE WAR
“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice” (Proverbs 23:24). When my wife and I decided to have children we came up with a single fixed rule: we might not win every battle but we must win every war. There has never been an army on this planet that has won every battle, and there...
WHAT IS FORGIVENESS?
A little girl was attempting to pray a portion of the model prayer. She said, “And forgive us of our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.” She got a bit mixed up over the word trespasses but her version has some validity. When people put “trash in our baskets,”...
THE PURITY OF REVIVAL
“Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16). “I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of personal holiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of men, and I shall have the fullest reward in eternity by maintaining a conscience always washed in the blood of Christ,...