By Larry Grile For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”—II Tim. 1:7 The great elderly apostle Paul is writing to Timothy, his son in the faith, for the last time. Like a mentor, Paul had taken Timothy into his ministry and shared a tender affection with him. Paul was rightly concerned that Timothy, who was by nature less aggressive than Paul, would be strong and would continue faithful to the ministry and the message. Paul had laid his...

THE LIGHT ON THIS precious doctrine of Christian Assurance has shone more brightly ever since the night of John Wesley’s Aldersgate experience. He said, “I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation: and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” Wesley was thirty-five years old at the time of his Aldersgate experience. He then began a long ministry of over fifty years. The...