Church Truth in the Dock
Unless we're careful about who's in the room at the time, the mere mention of New Testament church truth can spark instant and hostile retaliation. "That's divisive!" "Isn't it arrogant to think that we're right and everyone else is wrong?"...
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The Search for God’s Design
In September of 1978, I was nineteen but it seemed I was going on forty. I had lived my young life in debauchery. No sin was too great to attempt. Yet God had divine intentions for me, intentions of grace...
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To What Church Do You Belong?
As Paul contemplated the unity of all true believers, he burst into a sevenfold exclamation: "One body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one, faith, one baptism, one God and...
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Found in an Old Book
Over two years ago, I began a Bible study in our home with some of our closest friends. I was the music director in a large denominational church at the time, of which I was one of six founding members...
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And He Will
There are now more fortune tellers in France than there are medical doctors. Their evening TV offers news, weather, sports...and your horoscope reading. Wicca is one hot item (if you will excuse the word association) and almost every bookstore has...
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A Call to Faithfulness
Steadfast, loyal, conscientious, true, committed. These are only a few words which help us to define faithfulness. Faithfulness produces both blessing and suffering. We all like blessing but tend to avoid suffering. Yet we cannot have one without the other....
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The Timing of His Return
The New Testament presents the coming of the Lord Jesus as the hope, comfort, and encouragement of the Christian. Our hope does not rest in reforming the world, in politics, science, medical advances, technology, or education. We are waiting: "for...
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Perilous Times
Many years ago I was invited at attend a Rotary luncheon in Plymouth, Michigan. Three men spoke briefly, one of whom I had the joy of meeting personally--namely, the late Mr. Stanley S. Kresge, a son of the well-known S....
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The God of Patience
The mills of God grind slowly, But they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands watching, With exactness grinds He all. The writer of these words had learned a little of the God of Patience. It is no cause for...
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