DR. SHELTON SMITH Although we have our eye on the sky and our ear tuned to hear the trumpet, should the Lord not return, 2021 will be here very quickly. I read today where a well-known evangelical leader declared to his denomination that they must “change or die.” His pitch is so common these days as to be hackneyed. It is an appeal for churches to allow the evolving culture to have a seat on the platform at Sunday morning church time. Such compromise is heretical foolishness

“Let us now go even unto Bethlehem.”—Luke 2:15. An artist was painting a picture of wintry twilight: the shades of darkness were falling fast, the trees were heavily laden with snow and a raging storm was howling in fury. A dreary, isolated, dark house—forlorn, forsaken and forbidding—was silhouetted against the somber landscape. It was a sad, dejecting, repelling picture. A few friends who were watching almost felt the depression. Then, with a few deft touches of bright yell

When Christmas approaches, I think of the angelic announcement. “And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”—Luke 2:10, 11. I’m also reminded of the prophetic declarations which preceded Christ’s birth. “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall

There are most compelling reasons why everybody ought to pray, why prayer ought to be the most regular and continual thing in our lives. Jesus said that men ought to pray. Here we will give some reasons why people should pray. I. Because God Insistently Commands It in the Bible The first good reason for doing anything is that God has commanded it. Throughout the Bible are Scriptures with the imperative command to pray. “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men o