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July 29, 2026 — Beloved Enemy
A common house plant, Tradescantia Zebrina, is called “The Wandering Jew.” Do you wonder why? Driven from place to place through history, the Jewish people would find these words no idle threat: “They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more’” (Ps 83:4).…
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July 29
JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN: “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In 1880, James W.C. Fegan was on a camping trip in the country with some of the boys he had rescued from the city streets. They visited the home of Charles Darwin, who lived nearby, and…
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July 29 Petition Mission
“…the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God…” (Acts 26:17-18). Let’s pray today that missionaries may experience a breakthrough. I was moved by James Gilmour’s journeys through Mongolia (1870-1890). He walked, not because he…
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July 29
“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Your testimonies are my meditation” (Ps 119:99). “Moral relativism is a philosophical failure,” Francis Beckwith explains with a true story: “The teacher instructs her class, ‘This is the first day of class, and so I want to lay down some ground rules. First, since no one…
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Oil Crisis?
If you read my column, you know I’m not talking politics. I like God’s unchanging truth, not the fickle fortunes of men. Petroleum isn’t the only kind of oil in the world, after all. A thousand years before Christ, David penned the following: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together…
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July 28, 2026 — You Are Gods?
Jehovah (Yahweh) is referred to as the El above all elohim (Ps 95:3). But isn’t there just one God? Clearly one of the main messages of the Hebrew Scriptures is this: There is only ONE God. Most famous is the Jews’ daily prayer called the Shema. It begins, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!” (Deut 6:4). Other…