How important it is to offer children throughout the world an opportunity to hear and heed the Good News of salvation. Was not Jesus twelve years old when He tarried in Jerusalem to hear the rabbis in the Temple, listening and asking questions? He grew “in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with men” (Luke 2:41-52). While Jesus showed adults that He was the Son of God through His words and witness, He told the disciples not to stop the children from coming to him for blessing. Parents brought to Him “babies” (Luke 18:15), little “children” (Mark 9:36; 10:16) and older “children” (Matthew 19:14-15). Jesus wants everyone...
Many people, who have become believers in Jesus Christ, have repented of their sins when they were teenagers. For many, this experience happened when they were attending a summer camp or a youth conference. Important decisions are made during these impressionable years.
“Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of your young manhood. Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and you say, I have no delight in them” (Ecclesiastes 11:9; 12:1)....
“It’s too late for us” is often heard from many older people when sharing the Good News of salvation in the Slavic countries. They still think some kind of work must be done to earn a place in heaven with God, and little time is left to change a certain way of comprehension or to correct habitual behavior that is contrary to an Almighty Creator. Some even think that it’s impossible to change a lifetime of communistic thinking that eliminated God completely from the picture. But this concept is far from the truth which is explained in the Holy Scriptures. “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult...
