In the way of a reminder, in the closing chapters of John's gospel, we have a series of last words or sayings of Christ, spoken after the resurrection and before His ascension. These seven sayings are: 1. “Peace be with you.” …
Our Creator is a Father who is raising what will ultimately be an enormous Family. He loves the individual Family members—His children—and is pleased when they get along and stay out of trouble. His supreme goal calls for an …
Two recent incidents with Charlotte connections, both involving 18-year-olds, have made headlines and initiated debate over parental involvement and control of their offspring. Perhaps it is a good idea to consider these events ourselves …

(51) “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, (52) then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
We should understand this in a religious sense since any representation of God changes Him from what He really is. Egyptians worshipped oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, cats, monkeys, ibis, cranes, hawks, crocodiles, serpents, …
About six millennia ago, two systems, two ways of living, briefly competed in the Garden of Eden when the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, chose to disbelieve God and go their own way. The Noachian Flood occurred roughly 1,650 years later. More than a hundred years later, another event confirmed our first parents’ choice for the post-Flood world. Paul states plainly in Romans 8:7, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” By the time of the Flood, this carnal mind produced a society where “every intent of the thoughts of …
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