“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also” (Acts 17:6). The Gospel impact was quick and powerful wherever it was introduced. Paul and his team arrived in Thessalonica, and spent three Sabbaths at the local synagogue. He reasoned with the hearers from the Scriptures. His...
A donkey and a fig tree. The Lord made them both. He sought to use each of them. The donkey was a colt, a young animal never ridden before. Jesus sent His disciples to fetch it for Him. This was to be His transport in Jerusalem. A stallion – large,...
The Word of God gets scattered like seed, Jesus said in Mark 4. The sower goes forth to sow. Seed requires certain conditions in order to flourish and produce fruit. Not everyone realizes the life that is contained in a seed. Those given to planting and harvesting understand the power...
“I am the True Vine.” Here we come to another of Jesus’ clear declarations about who He is. Have you noticed the way of a vine? A vine cannot stand alone. It is loose and flexible. It has no stiffness to it. A vine is made to draw through its...
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? — shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” “As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we...
At times, Pastor Bill Cannon really caught wind of the aroma of Hell. His home in Haiti sat 200 feet from a community dump in St. Marc, a city of nearly 200,000 in the northern part of the island nation. With no municipal garbage collection available in the neighborhood, the...
