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August 30
CHRIST the TRUE: “They said to Him, ‘Teacher, we know that You are true’” (Mk 12:14). The word “true” here means literally “not hidden.” Of course He had nothing to hide: “That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world” (Jn 1:9). He not only had nothing to hide…
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August 30 Petition Mission
“Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession” (Ps 2:8). What a petition is this! Here Jehovah is suggesting to His Son, the King, an appropriate request to make of Him. Yes, He, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is…
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August 30
Can the remarkable fine tuning of the universe be scientifically explained by the concept of a “multiverse,” worlds upon unperceived worlds with an endless variety of conditions that leaves our world as simply “the right one” for life to exist? Not according to Cambridge physicist John Polkinghorne. In one lecture, he wryly quipped about the…
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August 29
JESUS HEAVEN’S GREETER: “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:56). These are the words of martyr Stephen as he approached the moment of his passage Home. But I thought His Father had said, “SIT at My right hand, till I make Your…
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August 29 Petition Mission
“The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isa 53:6). Alexander Maclaren writes: “In the compass of three verses of this chapter, there are seven distinct, emphatic, and harmonious utterances, all bearing on one thought: the vicarious suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1. ‘He has borne our griefs.’ 2. ‘And carried…
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August 29
Bob Brown began life February 12, 1944 as a throw-away child in an orphanage in South St. Paul, Minnesota. Purchased by a young couple for $55.50, Bob was raised in a nominally Christian home, but religion did nothing to fill the void. He studied at the university and then married his high school sweetheart. During…