NOVEMBER 2019 |
Originally published in the October 2002 edition of our magazine.
When my husband and I were married in Kansas, my father gave us a ranch and a new home as a wedding present. Things were going our way, and for seven years we enjoyed those surroundings where love prevailed. Then I...
OCTOBER 2019 |
This message was preached at Portland Camp Meeting 1958, and published in our magazine in August of 1994.
You know folks, the Gospel is precious. I heard one brother say that he’s been nearly fifty years helping roll the old chariot along. I’m a little bit behind that, but I praise...
SEPTEMBER 2019 |
This article was originally published in the July 2005 edition of our magazine.
Each of us will go through suffering of one kind or another. It might be physical affliction, persecution, or reverses. That suffering may be something very incomprehensible to us. God never told us in His Word that He...
JULY 2019 |
My father was a saloon keeper, as were his father and grandfather before him. I thought I would eventually follow in their steps, but God performed a miracle in our home.
As a child I spent much of my time around my father’s saloon. I can’t remember when I...
JUNE 2019 |
All people have the blessed opportunity of being so in tune with God that when the Trumpet sounds at the Rapture of the Church, they will rise to meet the Lord in the air, and be forever with Him.
That harmony of spirit comes when people are purged of their sins....
APRIL 2019 |
Darwin Lee was born on June 17, 1926, in Portland, Oregon, to Roger and Ida Lee. His mother died when he was six years of age, and then his father abandoned the family. He spent his early years on property in the Portland area and on Quail Lane in Roseburg....
FEBRUARY 2019 |
When God reached me, He reached one of the worst characters in my neighborhood. In 1915, I was a wicked, sinful man—a drunkard and gambler with seemingly no hope on earth.
On the farm in Virginia, I raised tobacco, and at one time there were 28,000 sticks of tobacco in the...
JANUARY 2019 |
“Submission” is not a popular word today. We hear a lot more about assertiveness, about self-fulfillment. No one likes to give in. Talk of submitting seems to go against the grain, but submission is a very important part of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It takes submission, giving up...
NOVEMBER 2018 |
Chester recounted,
“My folks taught me to reverence God, and that there was a Heaven to gain and a Hell to shun. They told me of many of the grosser sins of life, and that you can’t do those things and make Heaven your home. They also told me about being...
OCTOBER 2018 |
We don’t go very far along life’s pathway before we face the universal question—a question that not only spans the ages of time, but also the continents and cultures of this entire world. The question is, “What about eternity?”
One time a young man who was concerned about this topic came...
AUGUST 2018 |
We read in Joel 2:28-29, “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the...
JULY 2018 |
Thank God for salvation that can take a man out of sin and place his feet on the solid Rock, Christ Jesus!
I grew up in a semi-Christian home. My mother prayed for her children, but Dad was not a believer. While still young, I decided to lead a life like...
JUNE 2018 |
The most important thing to my mother, in bringing up her eleven children, was that we would know Jesus and serve Him. Though times were hard and we were unable to travel the twelve miles to the nearest Apostolic Faith Church, Mother made it a practice to have family worship...
APRIL 2018 |
To be a Christian is a tremendous responsibility. It is a call to live a holy and blameless life before God in this present world, and to let your light so shine that others may be won to Christ.
In the seventeenth chapter of John is found Christ’s prayer to the...
FEBRUARY 2018 |
Years ago, while I was a soldier at Fort Worden, Washington, God called me to repentance. I had a ruined character, blasted hopes, and an appetite for alcohol. My heart demanded sin.
Early in life God had spoken to me and caused me to pray. My father was a Christian, but...
JANUARY 2018 |
The Bible records many unusual and poignant petitions that were sent up to the Lord. There was Joshua, standing with his arms stretched toward the sun and crying out, "Sun, stand thou still." The Bible says the sun stood still "and hasted not to go down about a whole day"...
DECEMBER 2017 |
Both my mother and father had grown up with religious backgrounds, but God led them to the light of true salvation through the Apostolic Faith Church. He convicted them of their sins and saved them, so I grew up in a godly home.
My mother was a real prayer warrior. There...
OCTOBER 2017 |
It is a good feeling to get your second wind, to feel that your strength is renewed as that of the eagles, so you can continue in the fight of faith. The Prophet Isaiah had that thought in mind when he said: “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew...
AUGUST 2017 |
Imagine a cedar tree standing in the forests of Lebanon, tall and beautiful. A bird flies by and, seeing the cedar tree, makes its nest there. A squirrel climbs the trunk and sits on a branch to nibble a nut. A weary traveler sits down, puts his back against the...
JULY 2017 |
My first night in India as a missionary, I was told, “Pay no attention to the lizards on the ceiling, but be sure to shake your slippers in the morning before you put them on; scorpions like to crawl into slippers to keep cool. Also, be sure to tuck the...
JUNE 2017 |
The love of God. . . . We should remember it, talk about it, live in it, and appreciate it! John 3:16 reveals the very essence of the message of God's love: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him...
APRIL 2017 |
My grandparents were immigrants from Ireland, fishermen who settled on a small island in Lake Michigan. There my parents raised me in a good home, where I was the youngest of eleven children. Although we went to church, we did not have a Bible in our house. Neither my mother...
MARCH 2017 |
For forty-eight years I lived without any understanding of what it meant to be a Christian. When I was a child, my mother told me that God knew everything I was doing, so I thought I just needed to be careful and do the best I could.
I can look back...
FEBRUARY 2017 |
As young parents, my wife and I enjoyed God’s blessings. We had two little girls, and then our first son, Gary, was born. Of course, we were elated at his birth. However, soon after bringing him home from the hospital, we realized that something was seriously wrong. His bodily functions...
DECEMBER 2016 |
Some time ago, I visited a clock shop in Leavenworth, Washington, which featured grandfather clocks. On the wall, a sign said that they would deliver a grandfather clock anywhere within a one-hundred-mile radius of Leavenworth, set it up, and make sure that it ran accurately. A couple of customers were...
NOVEMBER 2016 |
As a child, I loved the Lord and the Bible. When I was first learning to read, I would lie on the floor with the Bible open in front of me, and sound out the words. I thank God for that early love in my heart, because it was the...
OCTOBER 2016 |
God has been so good to me. Truly I love Him with all my soul and with all that is within me. He has healed me so many times. I wish I could tell it the way I believe and know it.
I was born in Arkansas in 1910 to parents...
JULY 2016 |
As a child, I grew up without God and without hope, but how I thank Him for the day He transformed my life from darkness into the light of this glorious Gospel!
My father was a Catholic, and I was taught the catechism and loved to hear the stories about Jesus,...
APRIL 2016 |
My heart is full of praise to God for this mighty salvation, because I am sure that I would not be alive today if the Lord had not saved me.
In 1924, I was the first child born to my parents. I was raised in a Christian home on the family...
JANUARY 2016 |
God has blessed my life. As a young child, I attended church and Sunday school with my mother. At night, Dad would lock the door and kneel on one knee to ask the Lord to keep our family safe through the night. My parents loved each other, and they loved...