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January 12, 2026 — The Friends Respond
“The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God’s will.” —George Washington Here’s some good news! “Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had accepted Job” (Job 42:9). After all the fussing and fuming, with no arguments now, they…
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January 12
CHRIST the HIGHEST (Isa 52:13). David Baron, in The Servant of Jehovah, explains, “The climax in the height of Christ’s exaltation, as set forth by the three verbs in this sentence, is expressed by the word m’od, literally, “very much,” with which the sentence ends. ‘He shall be exalted and lifted up and be high…
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January 12 Petition Mission
“My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches” (Ps 63:5-6). “One night alone in prayer,” writes C.H. Spurgeon, “might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to…
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January 12
Mel Trotter, who founded 66 rescue missions in key cities across the U.S., wrote: “I didn’t get a very good start in the first place; my job was tending bar in my father’s saloon. Booze got the best of me pretty early in life, and before I was twenty years old I was the common…
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January 11 Petition Mission
“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20). Burma’s intrepid pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), wrote: “‘Nothing is impossible to industry,’ said one of the seven…
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January 11
CHRIST “the END of the LAW to everyone who believes” (Rom 10:4). Come, man woman, do you believe? No weightier question can be asked. “Do you believe on the Son of God?” And what is it to believe? It is not merely to accept a set of doctrines and to say that such and such…