As I left off on the first day, I was speaking on vision. Yesterday, Mark Schindler picked right up on that and he showed us that what we are able to understand at this time is really just a glimpse into what is coming ["A Glimpse at the …
“Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. . . .”—Genesis 2:3 For millennia, most of the world has been using a week of seven days. These seven days continuously repeat in their accustomed order week after …
Speaking at Regensburg University in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted fourteenth-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel Paleologos II, a Christian: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and …

(10) To whom shall I speak and give warning,
That they may hear?
Indeed their ear is uncircumcised,
And they cannot give heed.
Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.
(11) Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD.
I am weary of holding it in.
" I will pour it out on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
God indicts the entire nation for its covetousness. A major reason why coveting is so dangerous is shown by our credit system, which is based on the premise of possessing something before one is actually able to afford it. In this …
In Part One, we saw how corrosive bitterness and resentment can be to our relationships, considering the well-known example of Esau toward his brother, Jacob. Another example of bitterness in the Bible appears in the story of Naomi. After moving from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine with her husband and two sons, she had to deal with at least two significant tragedies. She lost not only her husband, Elimelech, but also both of her adult sons ten years later. After being left with just her two daughters-in-law in a foreign land, she says in Ruth 1:13, “No, my daughters; for it …
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