Psalm 90: It’s About Time
By Philippe Sterling A man went in for his annual checkup and received a call from his doctor a few days later. The doctor said, “I’m afraid I have bad news for you.” “What’s the news?” the man asked. “Well, you have only 48 hours to live.” “That is bad news!” said the shocked patient. […]
Christ Is Credible, Part Two: The Credible Claims of Christ
By Dix Winston Jesus Christ claimed to be the Son of God. The New Testament presents Him as being fully God and fully human. His death paid for the sins of the whole world. As a result, anybody who believes in Him for eternal life receives it as a free gift. These are all incredible […]
What Did I Know?
By Mike (Tsung-Tsun) Lii I didn’t grow up in a professing Christian home. When I was an elementary student, our family attended church once or twice a year, not necessarily on Easter or Christmas. During my middle school years, I was taken more regularly to a Taiwanese-speaking Presbyterian church, which should have increased my Bible […]
Is John’s Gospel Sufficient for Evangelism?
By Doug Potgeter I met a friend for coffee recently, and we thoroughly enjoyed an edifying conversation about the Bible and theology. At one point in the conversation, we started talking about what a person must believe in order to be born again. My friend mentioned 1 Corinthians 15:1- 4 and proceeded to explain that […]
The Sobering Reality Facing Single Christian Men and the Top Five Ways to Stand Amid the Current of Culture
By Nathanael Stevens The news industry gained a lot of viewers through the debate on “a war on women”—but the tagline was mere semantics, if not outright deception. The truth is, there was and is a war on gender. More specifically, there is a war on masculinity and femininity. Women have been encouraged to renounce […]
The Sobering Reality Facing Single Christian Women and the Top Five Ways to Be Prepared
By Summer Stevens Meet Emma. She’s a kind, young Christian woman. She always thought she’d grow up, get married, and have a family, but she wasn’t in a hurry. There was plenty of time for that! Let’s say Emma graduates high school in a class with 1,000 people. Half are men, of course, so that […]
2023 GES National Conference-Vital Free Grace Issues
Plenary Messages Workshop Messages
What Would Jesus Say? Someone’s Knocking at the Door: The Letter to Laodicea–Revelation 3:14-22
By Philippe R. Sterling One of the games I loved to play as an adolescent was Monopoly. According to my sisters, I was ruthless in the acquisition of property and play money. In the context of the game, I was rich. Once the game was over, it didn’t matter. What would happen if I went […]
Everlasting Life Is the Cap on the Gospel
By Joe Conaghan My doctor said my symptoms were all indicative of possible colon cancer, so he ordered the tests. I was fifty years old. Was this short ride really about to end so soon? Faced with an uncertain future, I wanted some assurance that I would go to heaven after I died. For reasons […]
Our Miracle Baby
By Nancy Rempel Mrs. Mahsud squeezed her 15-year-old daughter Razwana’s arm like a vise as they hurried out of the mission hospital. February temperatures in northern Pakistan had dipped to near-freezing, but their brows were wet with sweat. The delicious smell of beef kababs wafted on the air as the pair threaded their way through […]