Making Life Work

By: John Klassek

    We all want to live in safe and peaceful times. But, do we today?

    The past 70 years since World War II should have taught us that the price of freedom has been paid in blood. And yet, since then we have seen more bloodshed with more lives lost—the statistics are simply overwhelming. We’ve watched the development of frightening nuclear armaments coupled with failed United Nations resolutions. Anyone who seriously considers where we are today cannot help but wonder where we’re headed!

   Do far-off economic uncertainties and radical Islamic threats to destroy other nations in a blazing fireball all seem a bit irrelevant? It’s all a matter of perspective. A million starving people in Sudan is less important than...

By: Allie Dart

    Not long ago, in a discussion that followed a worship service, the conversation made its way to Judgment Day. Much to my surprise, three ministers in the group felt that because they had repented of their sins prior to baptism, that was good enough, and they would not have to stand on that sea of glass and face Jesus Christ for the sins they committed after baptism. We can settle that argument and find the biblical answer in Ronald Dart’s book, The Thread - God’s Appointments With History.

    “Most of what you hear about Judgment Day owes more to the imagination of man than to the Bible. . . As Paul said, ‘It is appointed for men to die once, but after...

By: Ronald L. Dart

    It was the last night of the revival. The congregation was softly singing: "Just as I am," and the preacher was standing in front of the pulpit with both arms raised in invitation. He knew there were people present who needed to make a decision for Christ. "Jesus Christ could come tonight," he urged. "Will you be ready for Him?"

By: Lenny Cacchio  

“How Long, O Lord, Holy and True?” – (Revelation 6:9)

    In The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Bridges-Logos Publishers, copyright 1997), Harold J. Chadwick states that there were more Christians martyred in the 20th century than in all previous centuries combined (p 323).  Such a statement is not at all outlandish if one thinks of the millions murdered by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and even right now in places like Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, and other darkened corners of the world.

    It should also remind us to be thankful we live in a land that guarantees religious freedom.  Because we have been honored with the blessings of liberty, we have little appreciation for the tribulation that much of the world,...