The Mighty and the Minister

James and John, like many of us, longed for places of power: “They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, […]

The Time of the End

Time is winding down. No one knows the day nor the hour of the Lord’s coming, but many sense that something is in the wind and students of Bible prophecy are aware of the many […]

Limiting God

No hero’s welcome awaited Jesus when He returned to Nazareth. Though His wisdom astonished His countrymen when He taught in their synagogue, they questioned His authority. Isaiah had written: “He is despised and rejected of […]

Saving and Losing

There were two sons in the Taylor family in England. The older said that he intended to spend his life making a name for his family and so set as his goal an office in […]

Leaving All

When Jesus called His disciples, they left their temporal work and invested their lives with Him. They must have appeared to be fanatics and fools to their neighbors and associates. But how many of their […]

Faithfulness

Christians are stewards. Immediately after the return of Christ, we will all give an account of ourselves: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done […]

Time to Stand

Man’s vanity has often carried him to unbelievable ends. Consider Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Napoleon, or Hitler. History has a number of examples of leaders demanding worship. In the coming Tribulation period, the final […]

Time to Pray

When trouble came, Daniel was prayed up. This faithful prophet was in the habit of prayer. The fact that Daniel had a regular time for prayer reveals that he counted prayer worthy of his time. […]

The Time of Jacob’s Trouble

For nearly two thousand years, Christians have been living in a parenthesis, a prophetic interval, a time “in between.” During this prophetic interval, sometimes known as the Church Age, both Jews and Gentiles who are […]

Wise Use of Time

Phillips Brooks wrote: “A friend says to me, ‘I have not time or room in my life for Christianity. If it were not so full! You don’t know how hard I work from morning till […]

Sacrifice

Florence Nightingale, at thirty, wrote in her diary, “I am thirty years of age, the age at which Christ began His mission. Now, Lord, let me think only of thy will.” Years later, near the […]

A Wise Man

General William Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army. One day his son came to tell the old general, who had struggled long with poor vision, that the doctors could do no more for […]