My Testimony – Fred Skalitzky – c. 2020

For some time I have contemplated putting my testimony in writing, but things higher on the priority list have always prevented me. But during this Covid-19 experience with time on my hands, quarantining at Lake Mayfield on a wet and windy day, having maté primed and ready, I will begin. The setting is perfect: the … Read more

Harold Bennett – Noah- circa 1955 to 2018

I was thinking of the account we have in Genesis 9 where Ham, the son of Noah, came and found his father drunken. His two sons, Shem and Japheth, took a mantle, walked backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. That is just taking the mantle of love to cover someone else’s fault because … Read more

Harold Bennett – Laws v2 – circa 1955 to 2018

Galatians 6:2, “Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the Law of Christ.” James 2:8, “If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, you do well.” This verse speaks of the Law of the kingdom of heaven. Some people ask us, “You have many laws … Read more

Harold Bennett – Laws – circa 1955 to 2018

Sometimes people attend gospel meetings for the first time and they ask us the question, “Do you have any laws?” I have said, “No, we don’t because God’s people are guided by the Holy Spirit. When this is so, there is no need of laws.” But there are laws in the Kingdom of Heaven that … Read more

Graham Snow – My Testimony – circa 1989 to 2018

“O God, I thank Thee for the way that’s opened up to me.” That is my testimony. I’m going to do something I’ve only ever done once before at a convention – give my testimony. I Corinthians 15:9, “For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, … Read more

Graham Snow – Jordan – circa 1989 to 2018

You know the story of Joshua, when Moses had died. Moses was a pillar, a wonderful man of God. He wasn’t an orator apparently, but he was a father figure. He was the meekest man on the face of the earth. Now he had gone. There was Joshua and all the people before the Jordan, … Read more

Graham Snow – Don’t Give Up – circa 1989 to 2018

My thoughts have been on the last two verses of Hebrews 10, “The just shall live by faith, ” then, “We are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe, to the saving of the soul.” Especially about this last verse here, I’d like to mention a few thoughts this … Read more

Graham Snow – Arise – circa 1989 to 2018

Do I dare say the same thing about the British Empire? It rose to become a mighty empire, the British Empire. It came as far as New Zealand, the furthest land from Britain itself and it became a colony in the British Empire. We have English in the whole world today as the world language … Read more

Gems – Serima, Zimbabwe Convention – 2018

• If our heart is not right with our brother, God cannot accept our sacrifice, as was with Cain. • Psalm 23 – know the Psalm, or know the Shepherd? It’s a personal relationship • The Publican and the Pharisee (?) went to pray – it didn’t matter what they were in life – and … Read more

Gems – Garangwe, Zimbabwe Convention 2018

• Isaiah 40:3, the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” A wilderness/desert are not the easiest places to make a road. We may feel it is not easy for the flesh to serve God – but … Read more

Thoughts from Buttonwillow, California I Convention – 2018

Hymn 314. O Give Me Rest What does it take to yield?  Not ability or brains or talents—just yield.  Collectively and individually, we come and say, “In Thy strong hands, I lay me down, so shall the work be done.”  Isaiah 64:6–8, iniquities have taken us away—distractions, self-will, resistance, hard spots.  But now we are … Read more

Lois Austin – Buttonwillow I, California Convention – 2018

II Timothy 2, repentance is a gift from God.  It’s not a gift we open and enjoy for only a little while.  It’s meant to be with us forever. Hebrews 6, repentance is foundational and essential.  Nothing more can happen spiritually until we receive repentance.  It’s a starting point.  It’s like the silent process when … Read more

Alan Beggs funeral service

Funeral service of Alan Beggs, on Mon. 19 Feb. 2018. Held in the Greenhill Hotel, Wigton, Cumbria, England.   About 400 or more friends and workers, from G.B., Ireland, Europe and other countries gathered for the service of a beloved brother and friend.   It became apparent to Alan that he had a health problem … Read more

Jim Chafee – Valley of Indecision – circa 1998 to 2017

Matthew 27:57, “When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple.” Verse 59, “And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.”   Mark 15:43, “Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of … Read more

Jim Chafee – The Struggle – circa 1998 to 2017

In Genesis 25, it tells us that Rebecca conceived and the children struggled within her and she said, “If it be so, why am I thus?” She went to enquire of the Lord and the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in thy womb.” It was the struggle that I thought of and sometimes … Read more

Jim Chafee – Power of Belief – July 19, 2017

This power of belief – well, the power is not in believing the power is in God but believing enables us to access the power of God. It moves the heart of God to enable Him to do the work.   It reminded me of something I heard years ago. Someone was talking about faith … Read more

Jim Chafee – Enabling Grace – July 19, 2017

I Timothy 1:12, “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.” The words who hath enabled me, have meant something to me for some time. My thoughts were going back there. Paul felt he had been enabled by the Lord. I … Read more

Ron Thomke – Durban, South Africa – 2017

Someone mentioned in their testimony this morning that she had been studying in the minor prophets and I have for some months been reading those books at the end of the Old Testament. This afternoon I would like to share with you some thoughts from Zachariah chapter 7. The chapter begins by saying that it … Read more