“Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord and bless His name: (Psalm 96:1-3). I will sing to the Lord as long as I live, I will praise my God while I have my being. I will bless the Lord with all of my heart […]

What do you do when the pastor has a hard time bringing a sermon in for a landing? Well, Elvina Hall, seated in the choir loft of the Monument Methodist Church in Baltimore, made use of such an occasion by writing the following hymn. Since she had no paper, she wrote the words on the […]

We recall watching on television, along with millions world-wide, as the Velvet Revolution came to a conclusion on December 29. 1989. Having previously ministered in Czechoslovakia when it was under Communist rule, little did we realize that within six weeks we would be witnessing what can only be explained as the sovereign hand of God […]

YOM KIPPUR Today is YOM KIPPUR on the Jewish calendar, a day of great significance to not only our Jewish friends for whom we need to pray, but for us, Christians, as this day points so clearly to the final sacrifice for sin made by our Savior, the Lord Jesus. HISTORY The history of Yom […]

I had arrived late that afternoon and had been driven directly from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport to the headquarters of the Union of Evangelical Christians—Baptists of Russia (UECB). I was pleased when they told me I would be staying in Room #1, where I had previously stayed on several occasions. Though Room #1 was not much […]