Love is an integral part of God's nature. We must develop this same love as our own character, imitating the love of God and Jesus Christ, demonstrating self-sacrificing concern for others, becoming transformed into God's image. …
“. . . and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree.” (Romans 11:17) On the third day of creation, God spoke: “Let the earth …
Abel brought an offering that was acceptable to God, while Cain—who must have been given the same instructions—did not. One possible explanation for Cain's inappropriate offering can be inferred from Genesis 3:13-15: And the LORD God …
(39) And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, "The old is better.""
On the physical level, a finely aged wine is obviously preferable to a new wine. One year at the Feast of Tabernacles, I had the rare opportunity to sample a Bordeaux bottled in the late 1970s or early 80s. Suffice it to say that the …
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon Without Becoming Assimilated (Part Two)
Recently, I discovered that a woman I work with keeps the Sabbath and the holy days and believes in keeping God’s commandments. While many of our beliefs are quite different, we get along. It is nice to work with someone who has similar convictions. I told her that I was attempting to learn Hebrew. One day after that conversation, she brought three books for me: one on Hebrew verbs, an English translation of the Septuagint, and one called 52 Hebrew Words That Every Christian Should Know. The last book is a beautiful, faux leather book with gold-embossed pages, which looks like what a …
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