By Bob Russell I’ve never been very fond of New Year’s Eve. When I was a boy, our family usually went to church for a Watch Night service on December 31. The activities started around 9:00 p.m. and included some children’s games and light snacks. We gathered for a devotional service just before midnight, […]
By Mark Taylor, Publisher Standard Publishing’s ministry is to and through the local church. The local church introduces our products to users who need the inspiration, information, or teaching we provide. And many times, the local church’s budget makes our resources available. So when one of our editors leaves our offices to serve full-time […]
By Shawn McMullen Each morning as the school day began, my grade school classmates and I sat at our desks and stared at a rectangular brown box mounted high on the classroom wall. The wooden speaker relayed the voice of our principal who announced the day’s lunch menu and a schedule of after-school activities. […]
By Shawn McMullen Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the […]
By Shawn McMullen All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’—which means, ‘God with us’ (Matthew 1:22, 23). How would you respond if God revealed himself to you […]
