New for February
God’s Wisdom in the Martyrdom of Even Young, Eager, Flourishing Believers
If you read a biography about John and Betty Stam, you will be impressed with their enthusiasm for Christ before they were ever on the mission field (serving with China Inland Mission ). They met at a CIM prayer meeting while students at Moody Bible Institute...
Why Not Skip Church Meetings?
More evangelicals skip church meetings than attend them. That’s a fact . . . an embarrassing one. One leader claims even the FBI could not find many of them. Some churches have decided to take action to recover the inactive only to find that their church...
Ask Edwards: Why Should I Care About Hell?
And these will go away into eternal punishment (Matt 25:43a). Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) believed in the eternity and torment of hell. “What is there in this world, which is not a trifle, and lighter than vanity, in comparison with . . . enduring...
The Bitterness Game
“Never pay back evil for evil to anyone,” God warns. Never? Like a man who has to move a water buffalo off the highway, “It ain’t all that easy.” After all, you’ve been deeply hurt, and the pain has been going on a long time. How...
Sin, the Christian, and The Field-Goal Principle
For those not familiar with American football, the game is played on a 100-yard field. A team can score in two primary ways, either by carrying the ball into the other team’s end-zone and scoring a touchdown (6 points), or by kicking the ball from a...
