Some readers of BFC OneVoice do not know what Lent is. What is Lent? Lent is the 40 days leading up to Resurrection during which time the individual is to focus on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving (giving to the poor). Lent is observed in the Roman Catholic...
Lent has never been part of my personal Christian experience but as a missionary envoy of the Bible Fellowship Church serving in Guadeloupe, West Indies, I have had plenty of opportunity to see it in its more extreme forms. Lent, as it is observed here in America,...
Recently, at a Bible study, one of the men mentioned that his eight-year-old son asked him the question, "How do we know the Bible is true?" When my friend raised that question at the Bible study, I had to stop and think, "How would I answer that...
Milestones happen in all our lives; significant opportunities that come to us that we venture into or "turning points." My life has been full of them. As I glance back to the past, it is evident that God placed turning points in my life. God’s goodness in...
There’s been a general trend in the last twenty years or so towards the idea of being "gospel-centered". This has obviously been a pleasant development, especially contrasted with the seeming prevalence of legalism in the years preceding. To gospel centrality we give an enthusiastic "yes and amen"...
My oldest didn’t have a "terrible twos" stage. Rather, being an overachiever, she began life with an opposition to authority that intensified at 18 months and continued with a gleeful abandonment of reason until age five. She was also, of course, the Pastor’s Kid, and church proved...
I’ve mentioned before how there’s always a song in my head when I wake up and often during the day. Sometimes I haven’t sung these songs in years. They’re just there and often minister to my spirit. Such was the case recently with the above titled song....
I’m in my eternal home now! It’s all true! This place is absolutely magnificent. Human words cannot explain it. And I’m so alive, so free, so happy, so perfectly content.
I’m home now! My mind is clear, all pain is gone, my hopes...
For most of us, the Christmas season is a hectic and stressful time. But the Lord gave us a taste of a quieter and more peaceful Christmas while we were living in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba in 1986. We were there ministering among the locals...
That word "Merry" is a strange one with both the brightest and the darkest of meanings. It is used a dozen times in the Bible to describe people who were drunk and acting irresponsibly – hardly a Christian virtue. The man who said, "Eat, drink, and be...