Perhaps the worst thing to happen to us as members of God's church is when someone in the church betrays us. Now what I am talking about, for instance, some people in our former church association have treated us very badly since we …
The Methodist church near the church office often posts quotations and sayings on their roadside sign. One spring day, the sign read, "We ARE open between Easter and Christmas." Not only does this reflect a common, modern American …
American schools used to teach history. When they did, they taught about the founding fathers and the principles they stood for. They taught the uniqueness and nobility of America's founding documents, as well as the rights and …

(17) Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— (18) I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
Jesus points out their blindness, of which the members are blissfully unaware. Their mammon (see Matthew 6:21-24) fills their minds and keeps them so distracted and comfortable that they do not realize their actual condition or their …
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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