Aunt Mabel
We watched the women prisoners file slowly from their cells into the common area. Their plain, dull uniforms seemed to match their expressionless faces. The team of four women from our assembly stood at the front of the room trying...
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Funerals: A Time to Minister
It was a call of desperation. Though the brother on the line was an elder, this was the first time he had been called on to conduct a funeral. Since normally there are only two or three days given to...
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Certainties For Us All
It is of the utmost importance that the heart be established in the certainty of every "Thus saith the Lord." These are days of research and criticism, when things are not taken for granted because taught by one's forefathers. Everything...
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What’s My Role?
Much can be said about the role that each of us ought to play in the local assembly in the future. But wouldn't it also be helpful for us to stop and think about the role we have now? For,...
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Service for the Master
The design of our heavenly Father in all His gracious work for us and in us is that we should willingly become His servants here, and in perfection His servants forever above. Should we not all press forward beyond the...
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Christianity Condensed
In Galatians 2:20 there are four words, each of one syllable, which indicate four distinct relationships to the Lord Jesus in which believers stand. The first two of these words taken in the order noted below, have reference to our...
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Keeping the Doors Open
There has been much work, effort, and expense in the establishment of local testimonies and their maintenance over the years. Now some saints are older and often tired and discouraged. They may even be tempted to give up. Some assemblies...
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The Parable of the Peach Trees
Acres of peach trees spread over the hillsides of a fertile valley through which we were speeding in the Sydney-Melbourne express. They were clothed in pink and white blossom, standing as a fair bride to receive the smiles and kisses...
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Tentative Arrangements
Heavenly wisdom helps us distinguish between the temporary and the permanent. For example, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning" (Ps. 30:5). "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us...
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