The Church & COVID-19
by Mark Cravens "Pandemic!” Just like that, our world immediately changed. The COVID-19 pandemic happened. The word “pandemic” most of us had never heard used in relation to a health crisis in America. Such a word, synonymous with plague and contagion, is suddenly...
What God Does in Crisis
by Darrell Stetler II "In these unprecedented times…” If I never hear that phrase again, that would be fine with me. If you’re like me, your inbox was flooded with companies you had forgotten, reminding you that they still had your email address. They...
Johnny Goes to College
by Ken Farmer, Vice President for Academic Affairs, God's Bible School and College Revivalist DECISIONS: Prospective college students are in a state of flux. Developmental psychologists and counselors describe a period of “storm and stress” where issues related to...
Christian and College Choice: The School on Mars Hill
(Reprint from God’s Revivalist and Bible Advocate - October 2006) by Aaron Profitt A CHOICE: As a seventeen-year-old student, I headed off to attend college at a school located on a hilltop. But I didn’t come here, to the Mount of Blessings, Mt. Auburn. Instead,...
Featured Person – Rev. Stephen Stetler
TBM: Brother, Please describe your conversion to Christianity. Stetler: Well I began attending church nine months before I was born, but the first real influence toward conversion happened when I was six years old. I sought the Lord as a child and in that...
Importance of Mentoring
Description of Mentoring: Mentor : a trusted counselor or guide. P.W. Keve, a pioneer in the field of criminal justice wrote, “a mentor [is a person] who, because he is detached and disinterested, can hold up a mirror to us.” Historically Christianity has known the...
Mentoring: What Does It Look Like?
If you’ve ever googled the word mentor, you may have stumbled across an obscure fellow from Greek mythology who went by that name. The story goes that Mentor was the trusted friend of Odysseus, a powerful king. Odysseus committed to Mentor the responsibility of...
Ministry Mentor: What Do I Do Now?
Nathan Gumbiner 23 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting. 25 But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from...
Mentoring
by Timothy L. Cooley, Sr. Elijah was a loner! He was a great man of God, but he liked to be alone. He needed people, but he preferred to be alone! When he was discouraged, he ran off ALONE, slid under a juniper bush, and prayed to die! ALONE! Not even God could talk...
Holiness
Holiness G. Clair Sams The Biblical motifs that emphasis holiness are designed by the Lord to show the breadth and depth of His desire to engage in the spiritual transformation of those who respond to the Gospel. If you will,...