I am going to revisit the sermons that I began at the Feast of Tabernacles. As far as I am concerned I did a terrible job there at the Feast. We are going to begin by looking at four verses, one right after the other. So if you will turn …
We are all familiar with sayings such as "A man's word is his bond," or "A handshake is as good as a contract." These sayings belong to another age. We live in a world where contracts are worth only the paper they are written on, and …
We all face trials in life, some of them quite difficult. A few of them may be so devastating that our first reaction is to curl up in a ball and give up. God, though, does not want us to allow hardships to paralyze us. Instead, He wants …

(6) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
When the Assyrians conquered the northern ten tribes of Israel and dispersed her population in the lands beyond the Euphrates, only the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained in the Land of Promise. Though the house of Judah had …
In the church, we are very blessed. We are surrounded by complete families, consisting of fathers, mothers, and numerous children. But that is not the case for most of the world around us. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2022-2023 roughly 30% of American families with children under 18 are single-parent families. Single mothers parent 80% of these, which means a quarter of U.S. families are fatherless. Such a condition has effects: Seven in ten juveniles in state institutions come from single-parent homes, and the impact lasts all the way through adulthood. According to 2024 crime …
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