Author Archives: P. Douglas Small

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7:13-14) I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will [...]

These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. Acts 17:6 In barely three-hundred years they did it! They turned the world upside down. The rag-tag band of disciples transformed the pagan Roman Empire into a Christian nation. They faced the lions. They put out the fires of persecution. They shut down [...]

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will by loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24 In a culture where personal freedoms are the measure of all things, the idea of a master [...]

Endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. – 2 Timothy 2:3 I did it again – I drove around the parking lot searching for a convenient spot. Inside, I looked for a soft pew. The words – hardness, soldier, endure – are not my kind of terms. They don’t build Sunday attendance. We [...]

They will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake. Luke 21:12 We are hearing of incredible breakthroughs around the world. And then heart wrenching setbacks. We heard about the great revival in Korea 100 [...]

If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person … his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.  So you, son of man: I have made a watchman for the house of Israel; … hear a [...]

The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field … his enemy came and sowed tares … when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared … Let both grow together until the harvest … Mt 13:24-30. After the “Lost Colony” in North Carolina, [...]