Author Archives: wkgrout

(Mother’s Day is Sunday and I am taking from my files the following article that offers some thoughts that may be helpful to stay at home Moms.)  For a number of years in my pre-marital counselling, I would ask the … Continue reading →

As I write this,  we are observing the 61st annual  national day of prayer. The theme is ONE NATION UNDER GOD and the text is “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”  Psalm 33:12 The Father of our Country … Continue reading →

What we believe about the future will have a profound and practical effect upon us in the present. “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of … Continue reading →

Good Friday and Easter Sunday are the two most important days in the history of the world.  The agony and glory of those days have been captured in song and canvas and written word in a thousand ways. What do … Continue reading →

From our text observe: I. LESSONS ON SOVEREIGNTY This is the first day of the worst week in the life of our Lord.  Worst, that is, from every human standpoint In only a few hours He will endure the most … Continue reading →

That revival is needed in the church of Jesus Christ no one will deny; but how to have it is another question. Some say a new experience is needed. Others suggest that we must discard our old methods and discover … Continue reading →

What is a Spirit-filled person like? Is he noisy and demonstrative with bizarre ways of talking and acting?  Or is he staid and stern with a far- away look in his eye as he departs from the defiled and deficient … Continue reading →

I celebrate my spiritual birthday today. On February 8, 1948 the Lord Jesus Christ found me, convicted me of my need for Him and entered my life. It was a cold Sunday night in a small town in Kansas. I had … Continue reading →

Much of what the world tells us is wrong. For example, we are told that “seeing is believing”.  The materialist believes in what he sees. Life to him is pretty concrete; none of this God and angels and heaven for … Continue reading →

We don’toften think of Job’s trials as being essentially positive in nature. A lonely, grief-stricken man sitting in pain and misery on a heap of ashes creates a pretty negative image. However, a close study of this ancient man and … Continue reading →