Collective Prayer
It's a familiar quotation: "The family that prays together, stays together." While there is no biblical direction along this line, we have both scriptural direction and example as to the importance of prayer in the assembly. In the Acts of...
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A Cheerful Giver
Second Corinthians 8 and 9 contain a description of the gifts bestowed by believers for the help of their fellow saints. No less than seven terms are used, an indication of the value which God sets on the liberality of...
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How Many Beads?
The red glow of the setting sun turned the desert sands the color of blood in its passing. Muhammad sat near the fire in the caravanserai as he listened to the babble of voices. Like him, the others enjoyed the...
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The World’s Largest Unreached Nation
The largest unreached nation in the world--which country is it? Could you find it on a world map? Turkey! One of the largest places on earth "where Christ is not named." How burdened are we that the gospel be preached there?...
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I Sat Where they Sat
Amid the weird symbols and gorgeous visions of Ezekiel no prophecy bears more vivid traces of its author's personality. In a peculiar sense Ezekiel is made part and parcel of his own message. Even his common acts assume dramatic meanings....
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Dangers of Religious Freedom
Greater religious freedom brings the danger of the invasion of many false teachers. Scripture warns us of such teachers (2 Pet. 2:1-3). Some of the more obvious dangers are the false cults like Mormonism and falsely-called Jehovah's Witnesses. From India...
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Rock Bottom
The violet and indigo of the mountains of Moab formed a rich backdrop to the scene unfolding at their feet. Stretched as far as one could see across the plains of Beth-peor on the east of Jordan were the hosts...
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The Funeral of Moses
By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab There lies a lonely grave. And no man knows the sepulcher, And no man saw it e'er, For the angel of God upturned the sod And laid the dead man...
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Speak to the Rock
This singular command was given by Jehovah to Moses during the last year of Israel's journeyings. Water was lacking and the people, as their manner was, complained against God and His servant. Prayer and supplication would have been more becoming,...
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