Home Visitation
Am I instructed to be involved in home visitation? Should our assembly work out a practical approach to this ministry? In some quarters, the subject of visiting in the home brings up doubts, fears, and many questions in the hearts...
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Is the Church Holding Up?
There are, it seems to me, three kinds of pillars. Some are merely for decoration. Superfluous structurally, they are there nonetheless to give the appearance of strength and stability. There is a famous one like that in the south of...
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Substance & Evidence
The Epistle to the Hebrews, perhaps beyond all others, is designed to strengthen the faith, confidence, and assurance of God's people. This is everywhere apparent: the great quality that is extolled in chapter 11 is not zeal or godliness or...
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The Saviour Comes
The whole world was rolling down the ages in darkness to its doom. Did the hosts that populate the regions of unsullied light peer over the battlements of heaven and mark with sadness its downward course? Did these glorious beings...
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Across the Street
For thirty years I'd looked at a vast empty quarter on maps of the area to the northwest of Nyankunde, Zaire wondering if it was really uninhabited. The steamy rain forest remains as wild and dark as it ever has,...
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Hanging by a Thread
"In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands" (2...
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Expanding Our Horizons
The night before, our little car had whined in protest as we wound our way up the shoulder of Ben Nevis along a narrow, rutted lane. The sign out at the main road had offered bed and breakfast at a...
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How to Read the Bible
The apocryphal story is told of a young lady who was lent a book by a close friend. She tried very hard to read it through, understand and enjoy it, but failed completely. Then one day she met a young...
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Beholding Him
We may enjoy the perpetual recognition of the presence of Christ. "The world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me (John 14:19). Nothing makes men so humble and yet so strong as the vision of Christ. It induces humility. When...
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