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Delivered From a Dungeon

Post author By The Editor
Post date July 28, 2015

Have you ever heard the prophet Jeremiah called “the weeping prophet?” This has been a common name for him through the ages. He was named that because his ministry was filled with much heartache and he was called to be a spiritual leader at the time Israel was taken into…

Post author By The Editor
Post date July 28, 2015

It has been a great joy to receive photos of so many children from our churches and mission works. Each picture tells its own story. Behind each face is a precious soul with untold future potential. These photos show us the impact the ministry of our denomination is having upon…

Post author By The Editor
Post date July 28, 2015

In October 2013 Pope Francis moved the image of Our Lady of Fatima from the Portuguese Shrine where it usually resides to Rome. The purpose of his action was to offer a Mass and consecrate the world to Mary. (National Catholic Register, October 15, 2013). Clearly, Pope Francis is bound…

Post author By Ian Goligher
Post date April 28, 2015

Rev. David DiCanio, FPCNA minister-at-large, who has been serving in our mission work in Liberia since its inception, answers some questions about the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and its effects on the mission work there. What led to the Mission Board’s decision to have you leave Liberia for a time?…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina took the shorter name of Francis when the Roman Catholic Church made him its new pope. Pope Francis is now the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere and also the first to be a Jesuit. A logical question would be whether…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

“It was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour” (Luke 23:44). This is the first of the remarkable signs that accompanied the death of Christ. There were the rending of the veil of the temple, the great earthquake, and the…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

A vital question is asked by Isaac in Genesis 22:7: “Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” That same question needs to be addressed to the religious world today, when the pulpit has largely departed from the propitiatory blood of God’s appointed and provided Lamb. This should not be…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

From the noisy bus station reeking with diesel fumes, we gazed past the teeming people to the low-lying cliff just outside the north wall of the ancient city of Jerusalem. There before us on the cliff face were the unmistakable eye and nose sockets marking “the place of a skull.”…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. —Matthew 26:38 Meditating on the sufferings of Christ has humbling and purifying effects on believers. Throughout the gospels, we behold the physical sufferings of Christ as we read of His being apprehended, beaten, spit upon, scourged, and at last crucified. But while…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. —Luke…

Post author By Ian Goligher
Post date April 28, 2015

While serving as the previous editor of Current, Rev. John Wagner escaped being interviewed for this series, but it is now his turn. As a husband, father of seven children and grandfather of five, church planter, pastor, and professor of Homiletics in our seminary, Mr. Wagner has a lot of…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

A number of years ago, while doing some inner-city evangelism, I offered a gospel tract to a passerby. Without prior introduction or conversation he angrily threw this question at me: “Do you mean to tell me that I have to admit that everything I do is bad and everything he…

Delivered From a Dungeon

Reaching Our Children For Christ

Dethroning the Pope’s Queen of Heaven

Ebola Forces FPC Missionaries From Liberia

The Pope to Visit America (Alas, to Say the Mass)

The Darkest Day

The Bible Principle of the Blood

Calvary: A Blessed Place to Visit

The Spiritual Sufferings of Christ

Bruised

Questions & Answers with Rev. John Wagner

Jesus the Substitute: The Sinner’s Only Hope