I am going to give you a sermon that I have given before. It has been a good while since I gave this sermon, but the very first time that I gave it was in 1969. I had just been made pastor of the Anaheim congregation of the Worldwide …
My maternal grandfather, Grampa Wool, was a fine man. My mother was the youngest of seven, so, by the time her five kids came along, Grampa Wool was into his sixties. Nonetheless, he played baseball with us (he had been a semi-pro player …
In Part One, we considered the examples of two men, Dirk Willems and Desmond Doss, both of whom lived out in public what they believed, the first showing love toward an enemy and the second selflessly caring for the wounded amid a hail …

(11) And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. (12) He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (13) These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Eternal life is more than endless living. It includes fellowship with God and at least beginning to live life as God lives. When God gave us eternal life, He gave us something unique, a life different from the one we were living before …
It should come as no surprise that the Day of Atonement is the most unusual holy day of the year. Each holy day has its distinctive traits. For example, the Feast of Unleavened Bread has us eating unleavened bread for a week, and Pentecost has the unusual aspect of counting. But for outsiders, Atonement is just plain weird. They think it very strange that we will voluntarily not eat or drink for an entire day. Of course, in this distinction - called "fasting" or "afflicting our souls" - resides a great deal of the day's spiritual instruction. Fasting teaches us to realize just how …
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