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April 29, 2025 — The First Four Gates
The following studies are illustrations, not interpretations, of the access points into God’s presence. “Walk about Zion, and go all around her. Count her towers; mark well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. For this is God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide…
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April 29
CHRIST the DISSATISFIED SHEPHERD: “If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?” (Mt 18:12). George Clephane, a young Scot, came to Canada in 1842. One cold winter morning he was found insensible…
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April 29 Petition Mission
“You ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly” (Acts 19:36). It has been well said that hurry is the mother of most mistakes. The wise counsel in our verse didn’t come from the lips of Paul or Peter or one of the other New Testament believers, but from an unnamed official in Ephesus. Cotton…
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April 29
“Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you” (Job 36:18). Harry Ironside tells the story of meeting “a very refined and elegant lady on a steamer, who asked indignantly, ‘You don’t mean to say I have to go to heaven like the dying…
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April 28, 2025 — Let’s Visit Tekoa
You can tell a lot about a person when work’s to be done. Does he want a lighter load or a stronger back? The little town of Tekoa, just 5 miles southeast of Bethlehem, sits at the base of a mountaintop fortress called the Herodion. The town was fortified in the days of Rehoboam, thus…
