I think that many of you remember on more than one occasion, that Mr. Armstrong commented about what he called the sin of ingratitude, and he called it one of the most dangerous and one of the most commonplace of all sins. He understood …
Jesus' miracle of healing the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19) begins with Him traveling from Galilee through Samaria and then to Jerusalem, going through Jericho on the way. This roundabout route on His last trip to Jerusalem before being …
For those of us who are not scientists, the Second Law of Thermodynamics can be a brain bruiser. Technically, it describes the fact that the amount of work produced from energy is constantly decreasing because of a universal tendency for …

(44) No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
One does not find the true church on his own any more than one can find Christ and the Father on His own. A person is led to God and to the church, and he is added to it upon repentance, baptism, giving himself wholly to God, and …
Many of us have been members of the church of God for several decades. Most of the time, we feel we are doing fairly well spiritually. Still, occasionally we remember sins we committed when relatively new in the faith, and such memories cause us pain. Our past sins have tormented all of us at some point. We stand self-condemned and vulnerable to the evil ploys of “the accuser of our brethren” to get us to dwell on them (Revelation 12:10). But, as Martin Collins said in his sermon, “Are You Feeling Guilty of Past Sins?,” “We cannot experience the joy of salvation while we are obsessing on …
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