FAIR SUNSHINE

I have delayed writing this particular entry since the sixteenth of April, chiefly because I knew not what ought to be said concerning it. Yet as I now look back upon that day, I see that the Lord had His own purpose in it, though at the time it seemed ordinary and uncertain to me. On that day I encountered several members of the Watchtower sect who shared the same kiosk space wherein we frequently proclaim the gospel. There was a certain tension in the atmosphere, for though we occupied the same public place, we stood upon very different foundations concerning the truth of Christ. Yet I was reminded that error is not overcome through strife of flesh, but through patient witness unto the truth of God. The Word of God is the sword that pierces through the lies and deceptions of the enemy. No falsehood can long endure before the light of divine truth, for the counsel of men and the craft of Satan alike are brought to nothing when set against the living Word of God. Thus the servant of...

Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth. He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how. By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. Mark 4:26-28  S piritual growth follows the quiet, unchanging law of the harvest. It works exactly like a seed cast into the furrow of a field—a steady process that brings forth remarkable results silently. Just as the seed, buried deep in the earth, eventually forces its way upward to the light, so the message of faith will inevitably manifest itself in a person’s life once it has taken root in the heart. The transformation is as undeniable as it is profound. One may look upon a field that was once brown and barren, appearing to the eye as dead; yet, in the fullness of time, it is suddenly covered in a bright and pleasant carpet of green sprouts. So it is with the soul: what was once a desert of indiffe...

O ver the years, many have asked to join me in street preaching. They ask thinking it as an exercise of piety—an experience to be tasted rather than a life to be surrendered. I have stood beside many who began with zeal only to fall away, and I have watched others slip back into a comfortable, everyday life. A full decade has passed, and yet, by His mercy, the fire in me has not dimmed. It does not merely smolder; it burns hotter with every passing mile. While others have traded their crosses for comfort, the Master has kept the flame alive in this servant's heart. It is a mystery of grace that after ten years of pleading with the crowds, the burden for the lost is heavier now than when the journey first began. It is a testimony to the peculiar grace of the Lord that the very videos of our labor in the streets have been used as a net to draw in inquiring souls. The church that now gathers did not come from other churches. It was birthed upon the hard pavement of the public ...

I n the sixteenth verse of the fifteenth chapter of the book of John, Christ said to His disciples,  'You did not choose Me, but I chose you.' Here is the end of all boasting. Our place in the vineyard is not a matter of our own wisdom or selection, but of His sovereign appointment. He has chosen us, and He has appointed us that we should go. Jonathan, a son of mine in the faith. Takes his first stand for Christ. But what is this 'going'? Is it merely a change of geography, or is it a movement of the soul? We must ask: What does it mean to go? Perhaps this 'going' describes a process of continuation and progression—the steady, inevitable march of the spirit from the infancy of faith toward the full stature of maturity. If this is so, then sanctification is the singular driving force behind every step. We do not 'go' by our own strength; we are propelled by the inward work of grace that picks us up from where we are, but refuses to let us remai...