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SHARING YOUR FAITH IS NOT HARD Typically, a person wants to tell everyone about a gift he or she received. Yet many people treat salvation like it's some kind of secret. They know what a wonderful thing they have but they're reluctant to tell others. * Sharing is called many things. The Bible calls sharing…

Author: Dr. S.D. Gordon

A part of salvation is to be delivered from selfishness, and I am selfish enough to desire to be delivered from selfishness. How can you be of any service to others if you are not saved yourself? A man is drowning. I am on London Bridge. If I spring from the parapet and can swim, I can save him. But…

A person talks to me about a certain medicine, how it is compounded, what it looks like, how many drops must be taken at a dose, and so on. Well, I do not care to hear all that, and I soon forget it. But he tells me that for many months he was bedridden, he was in sore distress and in great pain, and…

The Moravian missionaries to Greenland thought they should first instruct the Greenlanders in the doctrine of the Trinity. So they preached away to them of the Godhead, but the Greenlanders did not care about it. One of them, while interpreting the third chapter of John, came across that blessed passage,…

A good many years ago, when I was about fifteen or sixteen years of age, I wanted a Savior, and I heard the gospel preached by a poor man who said in the name of Jesus, “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth” (Isa 45:22). It was very plain English, and I understood it and obeyed it and found…

I believe that a life spent in God’s praise would in itself be a missionary life. That matronly sister who never delivered a sermon, or even a lecture, in all her days has lived a quiet, happy, useful, loving life, and her family has learned from her to trust the Lord. Even when she shall have passed…

Nobody, I suppose, teaches the young mother how to manage her first child, and yet somehow or other it is done, because she loves it. It is wonderful to me how a widow with quite a swarm of children somehow provides for them. I cannot tell how, but the love she bears them leads her to make exertions…

I knew a man who had lived a life of carelessness and indifference, with occasional outbursts of drunkenness and other vices. This man happened one day to hear a preacher say that if any man would ask anything from God, he would give it to him. The assertion was much too broad and might have done harm.…

You know how a judge will stop a witness when he begins to say what others have told him: “No, no,” he says, “what did you see yourself? What do you know about this business on your own account? I do not want to know what others said to you about it.” So is it with the message delivered from the pulpit.…

Some years ago there went into a Methodist class meeting a lawyer who was a doubter, but at the same time a man of candid spirit. Sitting down on one of the benches, he listened to a certain number of poor people, his neighbors, whom he knew to be honest people. He heard some 13 or 14 of these persons…

Ark Encounter is a life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky, which saw crowds quickly return to pre-pandemic levels as restrictions lifted. Ken Ham, CEO of Answers in Genesis, which oversees the exhibit said he believes there is a hunger for biblical truth and Ark Encounter opens the…

The seller of “Le Tricorne,” a signed Pablo Picasso painting, that recently sold at auction for $150,000.00 gave the following providence for the painting: “This painting was discovered in a house owned by my great aunt which was passed down to her from her uncle in the late 1930s. There were several…

Steve Montelongo was on his way home with his granddaughter when she spotted a car sinking into a canal in Modesto, Calif. As the girl alerted Montelongo, the 80-year-old quickly sprang into action and pulled the driver out of the car to safety. This is not the first time Montelongo has saved a life.…

In June 2018, the Barna Group released results from a study that included Evangelistic practices on Social Media. They found that “three in 10 (28%) share their faith via social media, and almost six in 10 (58%) non-Christians say someone has shared their faith with them through Facebook.” —Jim L. Wilson…

In Season 9, episode 16 of Seinfeld, Elaine’s boyfriend David Puddy is a “Christian” and Elaine is an atheist. Throughout the episode, Elaine is frustrated with David, because of his apathy towards her spending an eternity in hell. In the final scene. David tells Elaine to steal the neighbor’s paper.…

Jesus told His disciples to take the Gospel to the entire world. Two thousand years later, the world is connected like never before, but hundreds of millions of people still do not have access to the Gospel in their heart language. Louann Hunt, who works with a ministry called Faith Comes By Hearing…

Penn Jillette of the magician duo of Penn and Teller is an atheist with a word to believers. “I’ve always said that I don’t respect people who don’t proselytize, I don’t respect that at all. How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? I mean if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt,…

Susi Huelsmeyer-Sinay made headlines when she saved a resident of Yellowstone National Park—a wandering llama. The llama, normally used for guided tours, escaped after a guide loosened its halter. Speaking of the llama, the guide said, “Ike slipped out of the halter completely…because he’s sneaky, and…

Micah Wilder was a young man from a very devoted Mormon family. His family had deep ties with the Mormon Church as his father held position in the Temple and his mom taught at BYU. Wilder was fully devoted to his faith and was excited to go on his mission to Orlando, FL. While on mission, Wilder encountered…

The Chosen, a new streaming series about the life of Jesus used a unique marketing approach by releasing a concept pilot on social media to gauge public interest and asking for viewers to help fund it. 15,000 people responded. The Director, Dallas Jenkins expects the story of Jesus to be binge-watched…

Bob Foster is ninety-four-years old. As a young man he decided to lead “a life that counts for eternity.” He has been faithful to that commitment. In 1961 Bob and his wife sold an inherited plumbing business and bought Lost Valley Ranch near Colorado Springs. They operated it as a guest ranch but used…

Craig Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv says that “To reach people no one else is reaching, we have to do things no one else is doing.” —Jim L. Wilson and Doug Hixson —Charisma News, Craig Groeschel, August 29, 2015 Luke 19:10 (CSB) For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

In a difficult neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Central City Community Church of the Nazarene hosts a karaoke night for the homeless and nearly homeless in the neighborhood. They come, about 200 per week, and shut out the depressing street life to sing and dance and share refreshments. Pastor Tony, who…

Commenting on Billy Graham’s influence, Pastor Rick Warren said, “I learned from Graham to never lose your single focus. His focus was always on bringing people to Christ. I remember when Graham received the Congressional Gold Medal in the rotunda of the US Capitol in 1996. There were about 400 chairs,…