He Owns All the Silver and Gold My name is Priscila Meiguins. I am a graduate of the Taquara Institute of Education and Health (IEST), a school for missionaries here in Brazil. I had always seen and heard many stories about Africa and sympathized with the condition of that continent, but I never had the intention to actually go there—until …
As hard as it is to imagine, 2010 is almost gone. It seems like just yesterday when the new year was ushered in, but now another year has almost passed into eternity. Under the Levitical system, with the work of the harvest completed but before the planting and work of the new agricultural cycle began, there was the blowing of …
I am so thankful to the Lord for His many blessings; we have so much to praise Him for. Often our requests are so heavy upon our hearts that we forget the debt of gratitude that we owe and can never repay to our merciful God. “Shall all our devotional exercises consist in asking and receiving? Shall we be always …
As the days get progressively shorter, how glad I am that soon the trend will turn around. While our darkness in Washington does not even compare with the long nights of the northern hinterlands, I am always glad when the days start increasing again, even if it only incrementally. The longing for long sunny days makes me ponder. What would …
“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be as soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3, 4. A soldier’s lot has never been an easy one. Danger, fatigue, hardship and more daily face a soldier. What more …
Dear Friend, We indeed are living in a grand and awesome time. While the media focuses upon international crises, economic woes and celebrity happenings, we know that these mundane episodes are nothing compared with the real issues. We are living in the measuring time! The judgment is going on! “The grand judgment is taking place, and has been going on …
