November 1             James 1:1-8                 How is your faith, people of God? Is it strong enough to stand in the temptations which are around you now and which will strengthen as we get closer to the end of time? If you feel a weakness in this area (and we all do from time to time), […]

It was supper time at the Tentcon family home. Dong, dong, dong… The clock chimed six times, and with that the Tentcon children hurried to their places at the table. After Mr. Tentcon opened with prayer, Mrs. Tentcon began to pour hot oatmeal into everyone’s bowl. The steam rose from the food, and made a […]

From a physical point of view, Young People, and from the day when we were born, we began to go through some wonderful changes. That day we were very, very helpless and weak, compared with what we are now, and can do today. For many months we could cry; but we could not talk. It […]

Sitting on the grassy slope were hundreds of onlookers. It was August 19, 1531 just outside of Norwich, England. Torn between two religions, England was a bloody sight. In 1531, she had not yet broken from Rome, although King Henry VIII was rearing that decree. Protestants and Catholics alike were suffering from the prolonged civil […]

“Christ is standing and knocking at your door. Let Him in tonight,” said Luis Palau to a group of 5,000 gathered at the Old Kent Park on September 15, 1994. Old Kent Park is home to a local minor baseball team called, appropriately, the White Caps. For the people living in the Grand Rapids area, […]

The Canons of Dordt (1619) is the third of the three confessions in the Three Forms of Unity. It was formulated at the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) in response to the rise, in the Dutch churches, of doctrines which were heretical and which contradicted the earlier confessions of the church, the Belgic Confession (1561), and […]

Glorification is the last step in the golden chain of salvation. Romans 8:29-30 gives us that order. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom […]

The following are my concerns about Mr. Allen J. Brummel’s review of the Life and Mission of William Carey by Timothy George in the June/1994 issue of the Beacon Lights.             Mr. Brummel has failed to show the errors of the Baptist religion. The readers of the Beacon Lights (our beloved young people) may conclude […]