Message Updated -  December 3rd, 2011 

We are now in our 15th year in this ministry.  In December, 1997, I had an idea and a desire to communicate online.  I started a web site called The Lamp & the Light, named after Psalm

119:105.  Beginning on a free server, our goal was sharing sermons and outlines and helping readers easily find news headlines of interest to Christians.  After a few years, we changed the name of the site to News For Christians, stressing the news section, but not forgetting the study content.  Our readership has slowly built from 5-10 visitors a day to now more than 500 per day.  Those are not huge numbers compared to other

We have never accepted advertising and do not plan to start.  Making money was never our 
goal.  God has blessed us through a good Christian businessman who allows us free hosting.  We pay for the domain name, but the only other cost involved is time.  Some have asked why we would spend 2 hours a day updating the site.  The answer is that we enjoy reading news and feel a sense of accomplishment in sharing with others. 

This site is the work of one person.  My name is Robert L. Cobb and I live in the small southern town of Gaffney, South Carolina.  I have been married since 1978 and have four grown children.  I am a born-again Christian and a member of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Blacksburg, South Carolina.  I taught the Adult Sunday School class there for many years and designed my own courses of study.  I have supplied as a speaker at my church and other churches in the area, although it has been a few years ago.  I have a great interest in public speaking and homiletics.  Over the years, I have collected a large library of Christian and history books.  This year, I would like to write about what I have l have learned from those books down through the years.

Politically and religiously, I am a conservative.  My church is Independent Baptist and I attended a satellite campus of Tabernacle Bible College in Greenville, S.C. back in the 1980's.  I have been employed since 1987 at Parker-Hannifin, a hydraulic pump manufacturing plant located in Kings Mountain, N.C.

We are constantly tinkering with the site, trying to improve the layout and readability.  As we look to 2012, we hope to add many more classic sermons by some of the greatest preachers of the church age.  In 2011, we added 35 classic sermons to our collection.  In the last few years, we have tried to feature some of the lesser known and read preachers on this site whose work might not be featured as much as other ministres.  Men like David James Burrell, Phillips Brooks, J. Stuart Holden, Louis Albert Banks, Henry P. Liddon have sermons here, along with the well-knowns like Spurgeon, MacLaren, Talmage and Sunday.

I close this message the same as last year.  Who knows what a new year may bring forth?  Is 2012 the year of Christ's return?  It behooves us all to make our calling and election sure.  If you are not a Christian, do not let another day pass without giving your heart to God.

We appreciate your visits to our site.  If God leads, tell others about our ministry and point them to our site.  If you are the owner of a web ministry, please consider adding a link to News For Christians on your site.  We will gladly reciprocate in most cases.  May God bless you in your reading adventures!

In Christ,

Robert L. Cobb
Editor, www.NewsForChristians.com