Ephesians 1:14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession-to the praise of his glory.I can remember buying my first stereo record player unit, which shows you how old I am. I was really excited about it, but it...
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.Bill Munro was in his late seventies when I met him. He had been a fisherman all of his life, save for the war years, when he and his four brothers served in the Atlantic and...
We had finally arrived in the Fredericton region of New Brunswick. Our vacation had officially begun!We were visiting our first official tourist attraction, King's Landing Historical Settlement, when we first met him, "doomsday man". We had been immensely enjoying...
The story has been told about a sailor who found himself shipwrecked on a South Sea Island. He was seized by the natives, hoisted to their shoulders, carried to their village, and seated on their throne.Little by little, he learned it was their custom each year to...
"But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there the Lord Jesus Christ." - Philippians 3:20William Carey was born in a .Northamptonshire village in England, August 17, 1761. He became a Christian when he was eighteen and soon developed a...
"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." - Daniel 12:2Gilbert Haven was a Methodist Episcopalian Bishop known as an able writer, a zealous reformer, an earnest preacher, and an...
"for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night." - 1 Thessalonians 5:2In October 2003, a string of Southern California wildfires eventually claimed two-dozen lives. The flames moved at a speed faster than people could flee....