This article was originally published in the May 1981 edition of our magazine.

God has an excellent set of balances. His weights and measures are perfect. And some day there is going to be a weighing-in time for each one of us.

There is a story in the Book of Ezra that...

This article was originally published in the March 1984 edition of this magazine.

Just one breath between me and eternity! Of course, that is all any of us have at any time, but it was brought forcibly to my attention when I was fifteen years old and very ill. My throat...

My family was in the right place at the right time. It was in a little Arizona mining town in about 1914 that God came down and changed some lives that had been ruined by sin. A paper came from the Apostolic Faith Church in Portland, Oregon, that held a...

This article was originally published in the May 1986 edition of our magazine.

We are all needy people. Pick up a news magazine today, and you’ll probably see an article about healthcare. But it’s not just the sick who have needs—people who are well have needs also. You may read in...

It is wonderful for us who are gathered here from different parts of the United States and many other countries, to know that the Blood of Jesus Christ has made all nations of one blood. We are not here because we were well thought of or because we were not...

I thank God for the Name of Jesus—the Name I used disparagingly on my lips for years. It is the sweetest Name on earth to me today because it is through that Name that my life has been transformed. I was a prosperous North Dakota farmer who started out with...

My heart is grateful for the light that has shone on my life. I was born of parents who were professing Christians, though my grandparents were pagans. My parents were greatly interested in my training, but I was very naughty and rebellious from my youth.

After my schooling was completed, I...

My thoughts are often directed to those who are lost, that they will see the beauty of the Gospel and want to share in it. The Lord has made marvelous plans for mankind’s eternal welfare. The Bible teaches that every soul will spend eternity either in Heaven or Hell. Today,...

The story of Jesus changed the whole course of my life.

My mother was brought up in a religious home, and it was more strict than she liked. Thinking the world looked bright, she left her home and married my father, who was a fiddle player and could play all night...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...