A Golden Opportunity God blesses one couple’s business to send another couple to Africa for mission service. When Lee and Sarah White*, brand new entrepreneurs, opened their small business, they had a simple prayer – enough work to support their family. They hesitated when Chris Duman, a young man just dismissed from a factory job that conflicted with his Sabbath-keeping, …
Encounter for Love A worker at London Heathrow Airport receives a reminder that God is real and loves him. His name may be John, Henry or Pulla; we never found out. He looks like he may be from the Philippines or somewhere in the Pacific Islands. Short and stout, he could have been a rugby player, except that middle age …
Have you ever wrestled with temptation until it hurt? When temptation comes upon us, we have the mighty promises of Scripture to be our defense! “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also …
By faith we know that the time is coming when the earth will be “lightened with his glory” and that “Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” (Rev. 18:1; Isa. 60:3) How we look forward with joy to this time, but is there an experience that God is calling us into before He …
How much do we really want Jesus to come? Are we tired of this world with its burden of sin? What efforts are we putting forth to hasten the coming of the Messiah? Do the words of Jesus apply to us: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot…” (Rev. 3:15)? In the mid-1850s a revival swept …
July 1, 2010 For us Americans, the major summer holiday is nearly here—the 4th of July. While our nation remembers its birth by igniting gunpowder in various forms, how much greater of an “Independence Day” we have to anticipate! In the Hebrew economy, every fiftieth year was a grand jubilee. “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty …
