Seeing Through the Impossible  – Hebrews 11:24-27

It probably began earlier, but when Moses reached his fortieth birthday, his heart drove him out of Egypt.  He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh and identified with his mother’s people, Israel.  In a sense the persecution of them fell on him, but he was able to...

So Walk Ye in Him – Colossians 2:6

The Epistle to the Colossians was written by Paul when he was under arrest in Rome. Most likely, some of you have “spent time” thinking about the clause “under arrest,” but most have not. What is it to “arrest” something? It is to stop, hinder, or to check the forward...

April 13

The first translation of the complete Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into German was not made by the Protestant Martin Luther, but by the Anabaptists Ludwig Hetzer and Hans Denck. Historian Ludwig Keller, wrote in 1914, “The fact is by no means yet...

The Offering up of Ishmael – Romans 12:1

Let’s start with a show of hands. How many of you know the story about Abraham’s offering of his son, Isaac? That sacrifice on the top of Mount Moriah is one of the great mountain peaks of the Bible. It strums so many strings and plays such wonderful music. There are...

April 6

Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769.  He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England.  Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...

March 30

Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York.  He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one.  For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...