Category: Christian Struggles

Common Dating Questions

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date January 9, 2021

Mark Twain’s humorous testimony is not unique: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty- one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date October 7, 2020

It has been called different names in different ages. It has certainly been conducted in different ways in different cultures and centuries. Somehow, a man and a woman come to the point of marriage. Do they get there through parental arrangement or by personal choice? Today they might even meet…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date July 6, 2020

Brownlow North was a well-known evangelist in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. He served in Scotland, but also played a notable role in the Ulster revival of 1859. One fact about Mr. North that is less well known is that, as an unconverted twenty- something, during one winter he…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date May 22, 2020

No area of society has been untouched. On the original draft of this page was an article by Rev. Derrick Bowman encouraging people to prayerfully support a mission team heading to Liberia in the summer. In God’s providence, that mission team will not be going. We pray that God will…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date May 19, 2020

At sixteen, I was told to learn the opening words of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune; must be in want of a wife.” Forget the good fortune bit, it is usually the case that young…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date January 12, 2020

Next issue I want to start a series of articles for young people on the subject of marriage. A bad and unhappy marriage brings much misery and the prudent see the evil ahead and hide themselves (Proverbs 27:12). It is important to think through the issues and try to prepare…

Post author By John Wagner
Post date April 3, 2019

While most Christians sing in complete sympathy with hymnodist William Cooper when he wrote, “Lord, it is my chief complaint that my love is weak and faint,” they have often felt the same line would be an apt description of their prayer life. Their complaint is not only about their…

Post author By Derrick Bowman
Post date January 3, 2019

I have been going to Wednesday night prayer meeting my whole life. I’m thankful to my parents for instilling in me a lifelong pattern of church attendance. Now that I’m a pastor, it’s my job to go to church, but even if I were not a pastor, I’d still go…

Post author By Larry Saunders
Post date April 5, 2018

To say that Christians should meet together to pray seems to state the obvious. The more crucial issue is, “Why are meetings for prayer either non-existent, poorly attended, or considered optional in many churches? We need answers if we are going to experience healthy, meaningful seasons of corporate prayer in…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date September 1, 2016

Depression hurts. Abraham Lincoln, in a bout of depression said: “I am the most miserable man living…Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell.” C. H. Spurgeon expressed his own trials: “I could weep by the hour like a child, and yet I knew not what I wept for…The…

Post author By The Editor
Post date August 4, 2016

Guilt is a universal problem. One of my fellow ministers had an experience while doing outreach work on a secular college campus that illustrates this reality. One weekend when his team was having trouble getting students to talk to them, the leader of the ministry suddenly stood up on a…

Common Dating Questions

Daring to Date Differently

Companionship in Marriage

“Coronavirus Has Changed Everything!”

In Want of a Wife

It’s Time for Marriage

Satanic Hindrances to the Christian’s Prayer Life

The Value of the Prayer Meeting

Meeting to Pray

Depression: Its Causes and Cures

Got Guilt?