Taking Inventory
According to the Book of Acts, Ephesus was highly favored among the churches founded by the apostle Paul. He gave two years' residence at one stretch to that prosperous and strategic city. During that time there was an abundance of...
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Is Your Iron Blunt?
No good tradesman would willingly work very long with a blunt iron. "If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct" (Eccl. 10:10). Good...
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Moving Day
The world watched as a Marine helicopter lifted off, bound for Houston, Texas, while a moving van with Arkansas plates made its way cautiously through the gate into the presidential compound. It was moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and...
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God’s Right Hand Man
Christianity has, among many features to recommend it, several that call for constant consideration. Neglect of their force and application can easily produce shallowness of experience and weakness of witness. First, it can't be too frequently and too emphatically stated that...
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Tracts and How to Use Them
A gentleman on holiday strolled across to the seat on which his wife was sitting. "What did that fellow say to you?" he asked. "He handed me this little book and inquired whether I had the supreme joy of knowing...
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Sharing in the Harvest
Some businesses can be carried on at home, but others cannot. A man may make shoes in his back shop, but he can't catch fish there, and he can't sow seed there, either. It is in the nature of the...
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Heaven’s Certainty
Certainties are remedies," says the poet. How true are his words. The businessman, when he has the certain knowledge that his business is sound and healthy, finds in the knowledge a remedy which kills his anxiety. The mariner, who is...
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Laborers and Their Reward
Then answered Peter and said unto Him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and have followed Thee; what shall we have therefore?" (Matt. 19:27). Peter betrayed a wrong mind, the mind of the natural man in Matthew 19:27. His words betrayed a...
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Before you conclude from the cover that Uplook has gone to the dogs, give me a chance to explain. We have recently added a new four-legged member to the household, a tricolor Bassett hound named Rey-Mar Kayla Victoria. For those...
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