John P. Wiles

I launched a new web site this week:
Faithful to the Old Paths
This project was born out of what I can only describe as grief at the departure from the church by somebody who got mixed up in some bizarre, modernist doctrines.  This person is loved and missed very much.  I hope that by exposing a [...]

My wife was headed to her mother’s house (about 90 miles away) when, about halfway there, the engine lost oil pressure and began to rap.  She pulled off at a service station and looked under the car to see the engine leaking oil and oil sprayed all over the bottom of the card.
I have to [...]

God is good.  He is so gracious to allow us to minister on His behalf.  He gives us so much more than we deserve.

I hope every one of us fully appreciates our churches tomorrow, no matter how imperfect they may be.  How wonderful that we can meet together without the government’s approval.  Some day it might not be so.

Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston, ME, is having a mortgage burning ceremony at its open house on November 24.  Thanks to the generous contributions of all those who gave toward the mortgage retirement campaign this summer, we have been able to pay the mortgage in full!  This relief is just in time, as the [...]

Charlie Peace was a criminal in the 1800’s in England.  He was a thief and a murderer, but eventually the law caught up with him, and he was condemned to death.
On his last morning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he was taken on the death-walk from the prison cell to the gallows. Before him went [...]

A street preacher in England was told by police that it is a crime to say that homosexuality is a sin.  It’s interesting that Obama has just signed into law a bill which ads homosexuality to protected classes for “hate crimes” here in the USA — the Democrats slipped it into the Defense spending bill [...]

Many of our fundamental churches have been influenced by the worldly philosophy that “gain is godliness.”
We can all point to certain money-crazed charismatics who teach on television and radio that financial increase is a sign of God’s blessing and that God wants all of His people to be rich. The Bible calls these people [...]

Sunday was a big day — the Church voted to create a church-planting organization!  This is a great step forward in our vision to see churches planted in rural New England towns.  We’ve had $135 given specifically toward this purpose, so we only need about $165 more … where the Lord leads, the Lord provides.  [...]

Sometimes God sends more than the usual allotment of  challenges.  This has been one of those times.  It comes at a time when sponsorships on our web sites are at the lowest point in many years and support for our work has sharply declined due to the financial stress that the national economic downturn has [...]