Since Glendon Fox submitted the article “Revival in Schleitheim”, I thought it would be fitting to place the actual Schleitheim Confession here in total. It is indeed an amazing work. The Reformation, now a little over 10 years since Luther nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg door, had quickly become a state church of their own.
Read more: The Schleitheim Confession AD 1527
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines providence as “the care and superintendence which God exercises over His creatures”. This is just what we felt when we met Brother David Janzen in Manitoba, back in the summer of 2004. Somehow, we felt that this meeting held an integral part of our future.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear Him,
and delivereth them. Psalm 34:7
A wonderful story is told by a Moravian missionary in connection with angelic protection.
An American missionary and his wife bravely went to their station, where, twenty years before, two missionaries had been killed and eaten by the natives.
Read more: The Angel of the LORD
Valley Christian Fellowship
Halsey, Oregon
Recently I have felt that it would be a blessing to discuss some of the ways that God has been working across the country. It is such a blessing to watch the hand of God at work in people's lives.
Read more: The Birth of a Fellowship
In 1900, the Internation-al Prison Congress was held in St. Petersburg. The greatest jailor on earth, the Tsar of all the Russias, the turnkey of the great ice dungeon, Siberia, opened the sessions. Grand dukes and other notables of Russian high society were present in force.
There were gala dinners and receptions. At one session a French sociologist in evening dress read a paper on incorrigibles. It shone in faultless rhetoric. “This class of criminals are hopelessly sick. No reclamation is possible. All that can be done is, in one or another way, to render them harmless.”
Read more: Mathilde Wrede The Angel Of The Prisons
PD
I was about sixteen years of age when I heard a set of teaching tapes on godly courtship, and through that God kindled a deep desire in my heart to go for the best He had for me in the area of choosing a marriage partner.
Read more: Our Courtship Testimony
I grew up in a Catholic family in Massachusetts. I had never read the Bible, and had never heard of the doctrine of non-resistance.
Read more: My Journey to NON-RESISTANCE
The Lord has been laying it upon my heart for some time now to share a few things with each of you. As I look back at the last few weeks, there is no way that I can sit back and not give the Lord praise and glory. The Lord has done so many marvelous works in my life, and especially the last two years, I hope I can adequately express with words just how faithful He has been time and time again to me and my family.
Read more: God is So Faithful!