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Saturday, September 1, 2001

Encourage Your Sisters

Don’t leave widows out of your social plans. Often when a husband dies, his wife is no longer invited out to dinner since it’s “a couple thing.” Then invite a couple of widows! Make sure that those who don’t have a...

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

The Desert Rest

“Come apart” or come apart. As in the days when He tabernacled among men, so today the Lord, though the center of the heavenly host and the theme of their song, longs for the companionship of His saints. He wants their...

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

Help in Time of Need

“Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there.” Who can estimate fully God’s ways? Pros­perity in earthly things, or even in the result of service for Christ, does not always go hand in hand with the soul’s advancement. Who does not...

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

Disappointments

Are they really His appointments? We never travel very far on our pilgrimage until we are aware that God is intervening in our lives to effect His purposes of love. But often these interventions cause us much disappointment and are contrary...

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

That Sinking Feeling

“Through the paths of the seas” (Ps. 8:8) When someone informs us that Brother Downanout is passing through deep waters, we know at once what is meant. There are few who have had any experience at all on the journey heavenward...

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Saturday, September 1, 2001

A Lid for the Soul

Keeping out the defiling influences What is the significance of a statement like this today? “Every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean” (Num. 19:15). Surely the circumstances to which it refers no longer exist. Is not...

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Thursday, August 2, 2001

One Thing

Life is simple at the start. Breathe. Eat. Sleep. Cry. Leave the rest to your caregivers. But life doesn't stay that way for long. It seems that the headlong rush of the twenty-first century especially lends itself to increasing complication....

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Wednesday, August 1, 2001

Caught Up

In these days of growing uncertainty, there is a bright and certain hope! Do you think we’ll ever get caught up?” We were standing in the press room as brother Tim asked the question. The heady aroma of printer’s ink, coated...

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