David R. Smith

In the nineteenth century, a group of pastors were organizing a citywide evangelistic campaign. As they discussed who they should invite to preach, the name of the noted evangelist D. …

1 Timothy 2:4 says, “God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” This verse doesn’t require much interpretation; it just states a simple fact. However, if …

On the morning of April 19, 1775, John Parker was lying in bed. He didn’t have long to live…but that fact had nothing to do with the 700 British soldiers …

In 1959, as the world was embracing commercial air travel, Canada was set to unveil her latest offering to the world: Ottawa International Airport. Originally known as Uplands, the newly …

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or …

“Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the Devil are after it.”

“God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.”

“In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, …

“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth – the universe looks suspiciously fixed.”

“The best data we have concerning the big bang are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, …