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If you recall the first sermon, I began by showing that we observe the first and last Days of Unleavened Bread for the same reasons. God said in Exodus 12:17 that He has us keep these feast days, He has us keep them holy, and He has us …
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The Gift of Discerning Spirits
". . . to another [is given the gift of] dicerning spirits . . ." —I Corinthians 12:10 For over a year, I have been pondering whether the spiritual gifts mentioned by the apostle Paul in I Corinthians 12:8-10 are something a …
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Keeping Godly Traditions (Part One)
As the play Fiddler on the Roof opens, the audience sees a solitary figure, barely visible in the shadows of dawn, sitting and playing his violin on a steep roof overlooking a pre-1917 Russian village. As the workday begins, a Jew by the …
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John 17:3
(3) And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they, representing all mankind, were expelled by God from the Garden of Eden. The Garden represents being in God's presence and thereby having easy access and communication with Him. In Genesis 2:17, God …
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Big-Picture Thinking
by Richard T. RitenbaughEach year, as we flip our Gregorian calendars from December to January, it has become traditional to assess the old year and resolve to amend our faults and shortcomings in the new. Unfortunately, these assessments have devolved into a series of meaningless "Best of" and "Worst of" lists, while the amending of our ways chiefly concerns foods we love to eat, liquids we like to drink, weight we need to lose, and exercise we ought to do. As for real soul-searching and determination to improve one's character, for most, that has passed from the scene with the dodo bird and the passenger …
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For the sake of argument, let's assume you have decided that Christmas is not the horrible evil you once thought it was. Maybe this year …
Late in the first week of December, the Trump administration released the president's 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), a document …
“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall,” writes the apostle Paul in I Corinthians 10:12. Using …
The seventh and final festival of the year is the Eighth Day, which occurs on the day immediately following the conclusion of the Feast …
What is the most powerful two-word phrase in the English language? If a poll were taken, it would result in many different answers. …
Preterism is a term often encountered in the study of eschatology, which concerns mankind's ideas about "last things" or "the end of the …
