For April 29, 2026
Guarding Our Faith by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
WE LIVE , as all Christians before us, in times that try our faith. This has been true in every generation. But we live now, not only with the trials our predecessors faced, but in an incredible age of technology. God prophesied through the prophet Daniel about our times, explaining a vision the prophet had experienced. He said, “I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time to come.” (Dan. 10:13) God describes the spiritual and earthly warfare that will encompass future history, but assures Daniel that “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.” (Dan. 12:2) “Those who are wise” in each following generation, God tells Daniel, “will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.” (Dan. 12:3) His instruction ends with what seems a cryptic prophetic word, and indeed this has been true—until our time. He says, “Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.” (Dan. 12:4b)