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When The Veil Lifts
Everybody has difficulty in seeing the truth of the gospel. It’s hard to believe not only that I’m a sinner, but a sinner guilty of the death of Jesus! And not only that, but incorrigibly sinful, hopelessly unable to fix myself! But the Bible tells us that Jewish people have an added problem: there’s a…
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January 9, 2026 — Comeuppance
The Lord wants us to get it: get things right, get past our problems, and then get on with living life to the full. We haven’t heard about Job’s three friends for some time, but evidently they stayed around to hear Elihu, and then the Lord Himself, speak. “And so it was, after the Lord had…
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January 9
CHRIST our CAPTAIN (Heb 2:12). “It was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb 2:10). Faith likes how God thinks and is prepared to trust Him. When the Scriptures say, “faith…
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January 9 Petition Mission
“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him” (1 Sam 1:27). D.L. Moody recounts the following: “A man came to me and said, ‘Mr. Moody, when the Mexican War began I wanted to enlist.…When I was going away, my mother took out a watch and…
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New Year’s Plans?
A dear friend had the best stories. One’s about a fellow considered the smartest guy in town. Successful in business, he was enlarging his warehouse since he’d outgrown the old facilities. He was at the point in life where it was time to “take it easy—eat, drink, and be merry.” Who could blame him? He’d…
