The Memorial of Trumpets (New Year)
We notice that the first four feasts come close together at the beginning of the year. Then come almost four months of reaping until the last sheaf was cut, though there was still good grain left standing in the corners...
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Real Estate
The road north from Grand Rapids to Sault Ste. Marie, like many Christians' lives, begins well and ends well. In the middle, however, it gets sidetracked. A beautiful superhighway heads north through rolling countryside and you make good headway. Then,...
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The Treasure I Found
Arun is a recent convert from Hinduism. He tried other gods and religions prior to his conversion. When confronted with the questions of life, all these religions and their gods failed him. In desperation, he contemplated suicide, but before he...
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The Blessing & The Blesser: Ruth
The words of Boaz to Ruth as she lay at his feet on the threshing floor must have been music to her ears. "And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast showed more kindness...
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Christ Now
What can you do for me now?" This is a question which deeply disturbs the aging heroes of this world. From the professional athlete to the skilled physician to the military genius--sooner or later each is marked by the same...
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I Saw the Lord
"In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple" (Isaiah 6:1). What a vision it was that Isaiah saw! What an honor to see...
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Thanks a Million
In the summer of 1923, Mr. Fred Mehl pitched a gospel tent in Big Rapids, MI, his hometown. It was my privilege to join our brother in house-to-house visitation, open-air and tent services. "Grandma's" open house became our "dwelling." The...
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A Meeting or a Service?
I was traveling west for a gospel outreach with a group of young men. Enroute, I stopped by to see an old family friend who, for whatever reasons, had become jaded with his heritage in New Testament style assemblies. Somewhere in...
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New Age Illusions
Would you think that a grandmother with an advanced degree in interior decorating would write a book about biblical textual criticism? The sensational book, New Age Bible Versions, written by Gayle A. Riplinger, is all of that. It promises "an...
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