By Jamey Hinds “We love him because he first loved us” (1 Jn. 4:19). “By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us” (1 Jn. 3:16). “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
When the Faith Healers Came to Lithuania
By Derek Chambers The phone call came late one night from one of the local brethren. “You should have seen it,” he said. “They were healing people with different afflictions.” “First they sang songs, then they preached a sermon, and then they healed people.” So-called faith healers have been around for a long time in the …
Longer Term Effort Needed in Kaunas
By Randy Blackaby The good reception given the preaching of the gospel in Kaunas, Lithuania this spring nearly demands a longer term effort and, ideally, the commitment of a preacher to a year or more of full-time evangelism in this city of 430,000 people. As the accompanying article already has indicated, crowds at the Sunday lectures …
Absalom, My Son
By Archie E. Proctor And David the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom! My son, my Absalom! Would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Sam. 18:33) Nothing in this …