Arthur C. Custance was born and educated in England and moved to Canada in 1928.  In his second year at the University of Toronto he was converted to faith in Christ. The experience so changed his thinking that he switched courses, obtaining an honours M.A. in Hebrew and Greek.  In his 13 years of formal education, he explored many facets of knowledge and was particularly interested in anthropology and origins.  He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa in 1959 while serving as head of the Human Engineering Laboratories of the Defence Research Board in Ottawa (Canada) and was engaged in research work for 15 years. During that time he also wrote and published The Doorway Papers, and in retirment in 1970, he wrote 6 major books.  His writings are characterized by a rare combination of scholarly thoroughness and biblical orthodoxy.

Web site links are:  www.zoechs.org and www.malcolmsmith.org

Malcolms bible teaching is known and loved at Sugar Creek.  Many of us here believe he is one of the best bible teachers around today.  You will learn facts, history and other insights that are incredible, but, you learn them with a new appreciation of God, his Love and his Plan for mankind.

We are making 3 of his messages available here.  Visit his site for availability on all his messages plus he has a lot of material in "Word Document" form that can be downloaded directly to your computer for printing.

Message One:  Jesus and the Pharisees

Message Two:  Unshakeable Confidence

Message Three:  Absalom

About Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith was born in London, England just as Europe was plunged into World War two. His earliest memories were made up of bomb shelters, blitzed buildings and bomb craters to the backdrop of the fear filled faces of parents.

He came to faith in Jesus Christ in his early teens and experienced a fullness of the Spirit almost immediately that was to change and redirect his life forever. He began to preach at age fourteen and has over the last decades preached throughout the world. Malcolm Smith is not an evangelist but as he often describes himself, is an evangelist to the evangelized, teaching believers who they are in Christ, the beloved of God and His dwelling place through the Spirit. From the beginning he had a passion to know how the earliest church understood the Gospel as they changed the face of civilization with their message. He soon realized that the focal point of the Gospel was the covenant love of God cascading into creation through Jesus Christ. But more than doctrine his passion was to discover the way in which the message of God's covenant love worked out in our mundane lives and the work place. How do we love one another as He has loved us? He was pastor of a church in New York City where all that he was beginning to understand was put to the test of the broken lives that fill the streets of that city. It was during that time that he found himself traveling through the U.S. as a teacher and leader of the emerging renewal of the Spirit throughout all denominations in the 60's and 70's. These travels extended to almost every continent.

He now resides in Bandera, Texas with his wife Nancy who joins him in her ministry of prayer and healing gifts of the Spirit. On the Zoe Ranch he conducts retreats and a non-residential Bible School. He also travels throughout the U.S. conducting retreats and meetings in churches and organizations of all denominations.

Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand            Web site:  www.persecution.com

Many people called him the "Voice of the Underground Church" and others referred to him as the "Iron Curtain St. Paul." This humble man who began the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs was the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand. Richard’s life was a partnership with the equally amazing Sabina, whom he married on October 26, 1936

His book, "Tortured for Christ" will bless anyone who takes the time to read it.  It is a small book and a quick read. We highly recommend it.  All of his books can be found on the web site.  Messages by Richard Wurmbrand and many others can be found on:

www.sermonindex.com