VH: Next I got discharged. No, I never did get a discharge. I was separated from the service. They could call me back at any time. I went home to my family because I’d been gone for all that length of time overseas. I’d made up my mind that I was not going back to […]
Scripture speaks to us as strangers and sojourners by means of signs and wonders that foretell and bring the coming of Christ. On our pilgrim journey toward our heavenly destination we will encounter these signs and wonders. We note several of them that will take place in the world of men and in creation. The […]
In the midst of wars and rumors of wars. We can again expect as another Christmas season approaches that there will be an almost universal clamor for peace. Even while nations are locked in a malicious struggle for supremacy, and while others are feverishly preparing to enter the conflict at a moment’s notice, the prince […]
Journey through the Night, by Anne Devries. First published in Dutch as Reis door de Nacht. Translated by Harry der Nederlanden. Paideia Press: St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada: 1978. For Ages 5–105. Journey through the Night is a fictional novel divided into four breath-taking volumes. Each exciting volume vividly recounts the spirit and tormented agony of […]
June 6. Some elderly people will remember this momentous date; younger ones won’t. Now 56 years ago: D-Day, when thousands were killed, whether in the cold water of the Canal (North Sea) on their way to or on the beaches of Normandy. The drive for the liberation of Western Europe began. For thousands of others […]
As I sat down to begin writing this article, the news media was bringing us rumors of war. Perhaps, by the time you read this, our country will be at war. We had been attacked by terrorists, the World Trade Center lay in ruins, thousands of rescue workers were digging through the tons of rubble, […]
When one says that he is fighting a certain person or thing, that person reveals his hatred against that person or thing. But when the apostle Paul in I Timothy 6:12 calls Timothy to “fight the good fight of faith” he is not calling him to fight against that faith. He means that Timothy must […]
You would think that we would not have much in common with soldiers sitting in a foreign country fighting a war some fifty years ago. We get up in the morning, go to work and return again in the usual way day after day. Our lives for the most part are rather stable. But we […]
Therefore, everyone who hears these My Words and does them shall be compared to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. And the rain descended and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it did not fall; for it had been founded upon the rock. And […]
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to […]