If you could choose any one thing in the entire universe that would make 1998 a happy new year for you, what would it be? For a lot of folks the answer is this simple:… 

–Psalm 31:15 There is a creeping malaise of pessimism seizing the hearts and minds of people today. This feeling of helplessness and frustration is heightened by the passing of another year and the approaching end… 

The wonder and joy that surrounds the arrival of a newborn infant is something to behold. When a parent or grandparent gathers up that small bundle for a first look, there is always a sense… 

Standing Fast In The Liberty By Which Christ Has Made Us Free (See 5:1) Chapter 3:15-25 THE “NANNY SERVICE” OF THE LAW Is it important for us to know what the Lord’s apostle wrote in… 

“Wouldn’t a Christmas baby be just sooo precious?!” Parents who are expecting a child in December grow accustomed to hearing this. Certainly a Christmas birth is meaningful to Christian parents, as it should be also… 

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? For many it just doesn’t seem like Christmas without at least a little snow. There is nothing quite like the calm and quiet which descends after a heavy… 

Most people are already doing their Christmas shopping. Funny how even Christians get caught up in this. Spending many hundreds on their children and others in a frenzy of . . . giving? Lots of… 

SAVED BY A CHILD On a personal level it is not easy. As we still are flesh and blood we daily are contending against ourselves as it were. The war between the old man and… 

* LETTERS AND THE BIBLE READING GUIDE While the Spokesman does not have a “Letters to the Editor” column as such, rest assured that the editor does at times receive letters. Some of these letters… 

Dear children, come and sing with me Of Bethlehem and King’s decree, And Joseph up from Galilee With Mary mild. When Caesar, king of high degree, Did move the world with one decree, There came…