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Planning and Preparation
We must both prepare and plan. All of our plans are subject to God's revisions, necessitating preparation for adjustment and change. In humility, we state our intentions, but we seek God's guidance, and make changes accordingly, …
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Why Worship God?
The title question is one whose answer is vital to our spiritual and physical well-being. However, when we are asked why we worship God, our answers are often vague because we take worshipping God for granted and never methodically think …
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From Glory to Glory
The apostle Paul writes in Colossians 3:1-2, "If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, and not on the things on the …
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Revelation 6:5-6
(5) When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. (6) And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."
This is a picture of scarcity of grain during a time when olive oil and wine are abundant. The grain must be measured very carefully, and it is sold at about twelve times its normal price. At the same time, growers are commanded not to …
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Big-Picture Thinking
by Richard T. RitenbaughEach year, as we flip our Gregorian calendars from December to January, it has become traditional to assess the old year and resolve to amend our faults and shortcomings in the new. Unfortunately, these assessments have devolved into a series of meaningless "Best of" and "Worst of" lists, while the amending of our ways chiefly concerns foods we love to eat, liquids we like to drink, weight we need to lose, and exercise we ought to do. As for real soul-searching and determination to improve one's character, for most, that has passed from the scene with the dodo bird and the passenger …
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Forerunner Magazine
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Preterism is a term often encountered in the study of eschatology, which concerns mankind's ideas about "last things" or "the end of the …
