Have you ever paused during the busy activities of the school day to observe what is happening around you? Do this sometime. If we are observant, we will soon find that there are many ways in which our fellow students demonstrate by their behavior the attitudes they have toward covenant instruction. It will soon become […]
How do we know in what field we are called to labor? A student nurse asks this question in the following way. She believed that it was God’s will for her to enter the field of nursing, but there are many things which now have arisen to make her question whether she has placed her […]
There is at present among the young people of Jamaica a great deal of spiritual concern. In most of the churches on the island, a great part of the members are young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five years. They are deeply concerned with trying to lead a Christian life and such expressions […]
A single woman. Who is she? Is she a “loner” who prefers to be aloof from all personal relationships, living only for herself? Is she one who has been offered a husband, home and family and refused them? Or if not offered this, has she been “left” because of unavailability of men for husbands? Is […]
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of receiving a letter from the Beacon Lights staff, asking me to write an article for the Beacon Lights on the subject of my “new pastoral work”. Usually, when one is asked to write an article or give a speech on some subject, he naturally turns to […]
Under a palm tree between the cities of Ramah and Bethel, in the hill country of Ephraim was a tent. A tent to which the children of Israel came to be judged. The person to whom they came was Deborah, a woman whom God chose to be prophetess and judge over His people. Many times […]
“…for He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” (Genesis 28:5; Joshua 1:5; Hebrews 13:5b) “…the Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall do to me.” (Psalm 118:6; Hebrews 13:6) There are times in the life of both young and old believers when the future looms dark […]