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The God challenge
BY JACK WARD Psalm 14:1: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Those who reject the God of the Bible really have to admit that they just do not know for sure whether God is there or
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What discourages you?
BY JACK WARD One in seven Christians is persecuted worldwide. In 2025, 4,849 Christians were martyred for simply trying to go to church or have a Bible in a Muslim or communist nation. The top 10 nations for Christian persecution are North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Libya and Iran. Notice all
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The Remnant
BY JACK WARD Wars are going on all over the world. Atheism is on the rise in America, the homosexual agenda continues unabated, persecution continues worldwide, especially in the Muslim nations, and church attendance continues to fall. Those who attend church now are by far the minority in America. Only 8% of Americans attend church
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Time for a trim?
BY JACK WARD A lady named Carol has a pet finch named Coffee, who runs into a serious problem once in a while. Her claws grow so long that she loses the ability to control them. They get stuck in the nest and she cannot get them out. Once Carol found her nearly dead, hanging
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We will make it home
BY JACK WARD Baseball season is just around the corner. I love baseball. Baseball is all about getting players to arrive safe at home. Let me use a baseball analogy here. If I am a baseball player, I trust in my manager. I know the rules of the game: to get to first, I must
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Incredible prophecies about Israel returning to its land
BY JACK WARD Two things in the Bible prove the Bible is the accurate, complete word of God—the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection of Israel. No one has ever come up with evidence to dispute that Jesus rose from the dead, NO ONE. And now the evidence is indisputable that God raised Israel from
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Christ is what counts
BY JACK WARD Wayne Cordeiro, a preacher in Honolulu, Hawaii, writes: Some time ago some wonderful people in our church gave Anna, my wife, and me a dinner certificate to a nice restaurant for $100. We thought, Wow, a hundred bucks. Let’s go for it. We found a free evening. We dressed up. I took
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The Church: A place of faith and love
BY JACK WARD There are many organizations worldwide today. Some of them are very good and helpful, such as the American Cancer Society, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and the Kiwanis clubs of America, which do good things for their communities. And I’m sure we can think of a hundred others. Some organizations are just plain
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One generation away
BY JACK WARD You have heard it said that “we are one generation away from godlessness.” Well that happened to the people of Israel. Judges 2:10-12: “And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had
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I have not been that hungry yet
BY JACK WARD In May 1846, 187 men, women, and children left Missouri in a wagon train headed for California. There was nothing exceptional about the group or this journey, and we would never have known about them had they not decided to try a shortcut. The “Hastings Cutoff,” as it was known, was indeed

