Articles on Spring 2019
Youth at the Crossroads
Originally published in the Pilgrim Witness -September 2013Adapted/Used with permission of the author The onset of adolescence lies behind you, and you are journeying on a path toward manhood or womanhood. You are filled with a zest for life, a quest for knowledge, ambitious goals, and dazzling dreams. Yours is a thrilling age! Life lies before you. You are developing new…
Walking in the Light
A Study of 1 John 1Used by permission of Bible Helps, PO Box 391, Hanover PA 17331 Did you ever wish you could have been with Jesus when He lived on this earth? Think of the wonderful fellowship Jesus’ followers experienced as they talked with Him and listened to Him teach. Think of the blessedness of being in His presence like Mary experienced when sitting by His feet.…
Truth or Mercy
Originally published in The Pilgrim Witness -January 2015 Adapted/Used with permission of the author Like thousands of other Nigerian Christians in recent years, John Yakubu and his family fled their home to escape repeated attacks by “Boko Haram” terrorists. But, unable to feed his family in the refugee camp, John returned home to collect some of his livestock. There the…
Trust Be Not Afraid
Mile after mile sped by as Carol drove the old Chevy along the busy interstate highway toward home. Between intervals of silence and conversation, Carol and her two sisters, Elaine and Gloria, lifted their voices in song, giving thanks and praise to their Creator. How thankful they were for the opportunity to spend the evening with their friends at Pine Creek Church and…
The Finished Work of Christ
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. –Joh 19:30 As we have been developing this article over the last year, we have become increasingly aware of a growing interest in this subject. Various papers and booklets have been, or are being, written about it. Some writings debate specific theories…
“Regeneration”—Stem Cell Issues
I have been told by many women folk here in Holmes County, Ohio, that we have excellent charity stores and second-hand shops, as is often the case where large groups of plain people are living. We have had people from all around come to visit, taking extra time to drop by these stores. Apparently, people here like to keep things in top shape, so at the first sign of wear,…
One Christian’s Response
I am Ted. I was born a male and I know I am a male. My skin color is white, and I know I am white. My parents are white, my grandparents were white, and I have no reason to suspect my other ancestors were anything other than white. These are foundational, irrefutable truths about myself. I do not think I am anything other than what I am. Nor do I desire to be anything…
A Quiet and Peaceable Life?
Before I was converted, I had never heard the term ‘Anabaptist’ and the concept of someone sharing their faith in Jesus with others, was foreign to me. After I was converted, I remember thinking about all my friends who didn’t know anything about what had just happened to me. One thing kept going through my mind, “I need to tell them!” When something good happens to…
A Man in the Gap
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. –Ezekiel 22:30 The account of the little Dutch boy who heroically stuck his finger in the hole in the dike comes to mind as we consider such a verse. He couldn’t leave the spot for fear of erosion, so he…