Tag: Fall 2018 | Current

Poverty Exposed (Part 2)

Post author By David DiCanio
Post date October 12, 2018

girl standing beside a wooden wall close-up photography

Following from Part 1 Some years ago, former Russian President, Mikhail Gorbachev, asked US President, Ronald Reagan, as they looked down upon all the fancy houses while flying from Andrews Airforce Base in Maryland to the White House in Washington, D.C. ,“Are these houses the homes of your leaders?” Gorbachev…

Post author By Ian Goligher
Post date October 6, 2018

The life of the preacher is not getting any easier. It takes the faith of a giant to keep on preaching in season and out of season. Right now, it appears we are out of season as our culture dives further into sin. God’s call to proclaim the good news…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 5, 2018

The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of August 24, 1572 is one of the darkest blots on the history of France, staining the name of one of the world’s foremost nations. At that time, according to Rev. James A. Wylie in his History of Protestantism, the Protestant population of France was…

Post author By William Pinkston
Post date October 4, 2018

Before recorded music, before watching your favorite sports team, before television or videos, what did people do for entertainment? One answer: animal baiting. If you lived in virtually any European city around the time the King James Version of the Bible was being translated, bear baiting was a big thing.…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 3, 2018

The older I get the more I realize the great blessing of a Christian home. Some of my earliest memories are about music in our Chicago church. At four years old, a friend and I sang duets in church. I recall joyous congregational singing of the great old hymns. I…

Post author By Myron Mooney
Post date October 2, 2018

A new millennium calls for new biographies of the great, influential servants of God. Rev. Samuel Rutherford was indeed such a mighty servant of the Lord. He is to be remembered not only for the hymn “Immanuel’s Land” (which Anne Ross Cousin composed after being inspired by Rutherford’s last words),…

Post author By Rachel Huffman
Post date October 1, 2018

Have you ever heard a parable? Jesus told several parables. They are stories that teach us spiritual lessons. In Luke 15, Jesus tells a parable about an unwise young man who wasn’t content with his life. We don’t know his name, but we know he had a loving father and…

Poverty Exposed (Part 2)

A Preacher’s Antidote to Apathy

St. Bartholomew’s Day – France’s Persecution of the Huguenots

Animal Rights and Wrongs Part 1: The Biblical Position

My Testimony by Joan Pinkston

Book Review – Samuel Rutherford by Kingsley Rendell

A Wicked Son is Welcomed Home