Another year has come and gone, with amazing swiftness. Really, how brief is life. Only a few more days, a few more hours, and again it will be New Year’s Eve. The clocks and sirens all over the world will broadcast to earth’s inhabitants that they are crossing the threshold of another year—1948 gone forever— […]
The old year is past the new year has started. As we start our journey in this New Year let us take the Bible as our guide-book. For it is the only guidebook for our pilgrim journey here below. Let us remember this as we start this New Year in all we do. If we […]
“Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it.”—Matthew 7:13, 14. The Narrow […]
LESSON XIV. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (continued) John 5:16-24 Evoking a Confession of Sin: vss. lfi-18. With these words we have the beginning of the second phase of Jesus’ conversation with her. Go, call thy husband, etc. But didn’t Jesus know about her present, and past conditions? Of course, but this was the sore […]
I. Introduction. A. Blessed, indeed, is a Christian home. Children are a heritage of the Lord. a. “And blest the man whose age is cheered, By stalwart sons and daughters fair; No enemies by him are feared, No lack of love, no want of care.” b. See Psalm 127:3-5. 2. Every member in the family […]
As you no doubt recall, John, a member of the Protestant Reformed Church, and Jack, of the Christian Reformed Church, had been discussing the correctness of the Protestant Reformed Churches doing mission work among the members of the Christian Reformed Church at Geheim. John had developed the idea that Jerusalem in the Missionary Commission of […]
Every once in a while the matter of tithing is brought up in our circles. In this connection the undersigned received the following: “Is it my duty as a Christian to tithe? I realize that the New Testament does not tell us in so many words that we should give one-tenth of our income to […]
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon. (The Judson Press, Publishers) This story was written in 1896 and was first published in the Chicago Advance, a religious weekly, as a serial. The publisher did not know the condition of the copyright laws and hence the copyright became defective. As a result, sixteen different publishers in […]