
An Exhortation on the Day of Pentecost
When the apostle Peter, girded with power from on high, spoke to the assembled crowd, he said at the end of his sermon, “Save yourselves from this untoward generation.”It is an incomprehensible miracle that it was precisely Peter who was given to utter this grave warn ...

Beware of Evil Friends
Man is a social being. God made him so. “It is not good for man to be alone” applies also in this broader sense. The average man does not like to be alone. To be “forsaken” is to be cursed. Men have gone insane in the loneliness of their cabins in the frozen wastes of the northland, fa ...

Passion Meditation
How much strife David, the man after God’s heart, the sweet psalmist, had to experience. Also, how much he suffered in this Mesech of misery from the slanderous tongues of those who thought they were true Israelites. He even complained that those who sat in the gate spoke against Him. ...

The True Christmas Gift
The text is very short, yet it says more to us about the birth of Jesus Christ than a rapid reading would at first indicate. It gives us a picture of Christmas that is well worth remembering. It says, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.”God in His good pleas ...

Conversion
Conversion is necessary for everyone, both old and young. As the Ethiopian cannot change his skin, nor a leopard his spots, so a sinner cannot convert himself by his own power. A person who is spiritually dead cannot convert himself any more than a corpse can raise itself from the dead ...

Pentecost
The Church of the New TestamentThe church of Jesus Christ was not to be built by angels; it was not to be built in the first place by men; the Holy Christian Church (the assembly of those who are saved by the grace of God in Christ) is founded from eternity. ...

The True Christmas Gift
Rev. A.W. Verhoef (1917-1996) This text is very short, yet it says more to us about the birth of Jesus Christ than a rapid reading would at first indicate. It gives us a picture of Christmas that is well worth remembering. It says, “Thanks b ...

The True Christmas Gift
Rev. A.W. Verhoef (1917-1996) This text is very short, yet it says more to us about the birth of Jesus Christ than a rapid reading would at first indicate. It gives us a picture of Christmas that is well worth remembering. It says, “Thanks b ...

Youth’s Only Hope
(The following article appeared in The Banner of Truth in March 1987. The thoughts expressed by the author some thirty years ago are no less applicable to young people in today’s world.)When historians write the record of this ninth decade of ...

Youth’s Only Hope
(The following article appeared in The Banner of Truth in March 1987. The thoughts expressed by the author some thirty years ago are no less applicable to young people in today’s world.)When historians write the record of this ninth decade of ...