Leo, kadhaa, labda mamia ya makundi madogo, huru hukutana pamoja kila Sabato, akiangalia aina yoyote ya “dini iliyopangwa.” Je, ni kanisa la Mungu? kupangwa? Je, shirika lote au muundo katika kanisa ni sahihi? Unakaribia karibu na vitu ambavyo mtu ameifanya, machafuko zaidi, usawa, na ukamilifu unaoona. Kwa mfano, hata kipindi cha mwisho wa sentensi hii, ikiwa kuonekana chini ya…
Mamilioni katika ulimwengu wa Kikristo-wanaoamini wanaamini kwamba watapandishwa mbinguni. Wanaimba juu ya “nyumba za mbinguni,” yetu “juu hadi juu,” na “kwenda pamoja na Bwana.” Katika maelfu ya sherehe za mazishi, wachungaji kwa uhakika huwahakikishia waliokufa jamaa wapendwa wao tayari wame mbinguni, na imani ni indeliblyreinforced katika hali ya maumivu na hofu ya haijulikani. Lakini Biblia…
Birds, fish, whales, butterflies and frogs all have something in common. Hundreds of species of them migrate. They move from north to south, from east to west, up and down, back and forth. Golden plovers and Arctic terns navigate thousands of miles—from Arctic to Antarctica—twenty-two thousand miles round trip, in the case of the Arctic tern. They fly by…
Christ warned, “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:…For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this…
“Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us FREE,” shouted the evangelist to the “amens” of the audience. One of the last things any Christian would want to believe is that he is “under the Law.” Surely any Christian person knows that “a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law” (Romans…
CHAPTER ONE “O God, where are You when I need You?” Each day, millions pray. In China, Japan, Southeast Asia, prayers are recited in Buddhist temples, Shintoist pagodas; prayer wheels turn in dozens of Nepalese streams. In Europe, Central and South America; across the United States and Canada, millions pray each day. What happens to…
The apostle John, transported forward into time, wrote of the strange, awesome things he saw in the book of Revelation, the Apocalypse. He wrote, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,…
Millions in the Christian-professing world believe they will be raptured to heaven. They sing of “heavenly mansions,” our “home up above,” and of “going to be with the Lord.” In thousands of funeral ceremonies, clergymen confidently assure bereaved relatives their loved ones are already in heaven, and the belief is indelibly reinforced in an atmosphere…
Hundreds of millions gather each “Easter” on mountain tops, in huge outdoor stadiums, and in churches all over the Christian professing world to observe a sunrise service. All suppose they are observing the moment of Christ’s resurrection. But the resurrection was NOT ON SUNDAY! Almost no one, among all those millions of people, has ever…
Why are we commanded to “afflict our souls” by fasting on the Day of Atonement? What is so solemn, so somber, about this day that it requires fasting? Here, from your own Bible, is the truth about the Day of Atonement. The world in which you and I live is a God-rejecting, God-defying world. It is a…