January 2023

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Dear Reader

“What will this year bring?” It is not without reason that such a question arises, for the last few years have been filled with s...

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The God that Justifies

“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that i...

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Thy Kingdom!

There are many Scriptures in the Old Testament that speak of God’s kingdom and God’s throne, both as subsisting at that time and to be...

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The Waiting Ones

Most beautiful and complete is the portrait drawn by the Apostle Paul of the Thessalonian Christians. Most effectively are their peculiar features...

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Thus Far The Lord Has Led Us

Thus far the Lord hath led us on—in darkness and in day, Through all the varied stages of the narrow homeward way. Long since, He t...

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The Sun

Without the sun, all life on earth would cease. It is the source of all energy, starting with photosynthesis (the process by which plants...

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Sinking in Pelican Bay

“It was a dark and stormy night,” as the old stories used to begin. But this was not a story; this was true—and in our modern times—and...

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Search the Scriptures

Questions Who planted the first garden? Which man had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donke...

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