By David Faust Fanny Crosby was blind, but God gifted her with the spiritual insight to compose 8,000 hymns. A friend asked Fanny to suggest lyrics for a tune she had written, and the result was the beloved hymn that begins, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine!” In Revelation […]
By David Faust The cry of our time is for more. More money. More technology. More fun. Increased speed. Greater convenience. More value. More years as medical science lengthens the average life expectancy. Near the end of the Bible, the cry becomes, “No more.” This world has an expiration date. John foresaw a time when […]
By David Faust In their book, Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore, authors Thom and Joani Schultz point out: “Church attendance is shrinking. While 40 percent of Americans say they attend church every week, the actual number is more like 20 percent.” The number of teenagers attending every week has dropped to 15 […]
By David Faust What does it mean to say Jesus “always lives to intercede” for us? These words in Hebrews 7:25 make me think about a noteworthy miracle that receives little attention. When is the last time you heard a sermon about the ascension of Jesus? At the conclusion of his Gospel, Dr. Luke recorded […]
By David Faust Do you remember your first grade classroom? I can still picture mine at Salem Elementary School. The letters of the alphabet stretched in bold type across the top of the old-fashioned blackboard, complete with dusty erasers and sticks of white chalk. To capture her pupils’ 6-year-old imaginations and expand our view of […]
