DOES THE GOSPEL OFFEND YOU? EDITORIAL Henry Mahan Some of you have found that your family, friends, and fellow workers are not happy over your conversion to Christ – in fact, they are quite hostile. “I liked you better when you were not a Christian!” said one man to a new believer. Be encouraged, my […]

Let There be Light In Genesis 1: 3-5, God declares the giving of light. Light is essential to the purpose of God in creation because creation is the stage upon which His redemptive glory will be unveiled. It is because God is willing to make known this glory, that He commands first a light by […]

The Testimony To God’s Glory And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. Isaiah 40.5 The heavens declare the glory of God, and even the earth in its fallen state is a testimony to the greatness of the God Who made it. But nothing has glorified God as did the Son of God when […]

Here We Stand We seek to uphold, explain, promote and preach the message of God’s free grace in Christ and the absolute necessity of divine power to initiate, apply and secure the salvation of sinners. We do not look to man to save himself for we know he cannot. We do not appeal to men […]

SORRY When we think of conviction of sin, we usually think of strong feeling of guilt or remorse over things we have done. But when the Lord tells us what true conviction of sin is, He says “of sin, because they believe not on me” (John 16:9). The sin of sins is to not trust […]

The apostles and early believers were despised by the religious Jews because of the gospel which they preached. It was not because they were covetous or proud men. They were persecuted because the gospel of God’s grace, which they preached, was offensive to human’s pride. They preached (as I trust we do, also) that salvation, […]

“Then Judas” Matthew 27:1-10 As we read the Bible, we cannot help noticing that there are numerous examples of men and women who appeared to fear God and walk with him, who in time forsook him altogether and perished under his wrath. Beacons There are multitudes in hell today who were once considered saints of […]

A puritan preacher named Thomas Brooks made this true statement concerning faith in the successful, sin-atoning, Lord Jesus Christ of holy scripture, “He that believeth shall be saved, let his sins be ever so great; and he that believeth not shall be damned, let his sins be ever so little.” If I compel others to […]

“And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on His head.” Mark 14:3 No event recorded more beautifully pictures the sacrifice of our Lord and […]

“ORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE” Acts 13:48 Paul had preached the gospel clearly in power of the Holy Spirit. When the Jews heard the message, they walked out in angry protest; but the Gentiles desired that it be declared to them again (v. 42). When the Jews heard the story of substitutionary redemption, “they were filled […]