'Shane,' the 1953 feature-length motion picture stars Alan Ladd as Shane, an enigmatic gunslinger who rides into a small Wyoming town, hoping to settle down and escape his past. Soon, he is forced to take sides in a land war between …
Abstinence has long been associated with religious asceticism. This practice of strict self-denial as a measure of spiritual discipline conjures up the picture of plainly clad monks or nuns refraining from all pleasures of life as they …
John 15:4-5 in the Phillips translation gives us a great deal to consider: You can produce nothing unless you go on growing in me. I am the vine itself, you are the branches. It is the man who shares my life and whose life I share who …

(2) But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.
Revelation mentions three different periods that are all the same—1,260 days, 3½ years, or forty-two months. If we do the math, they all come out within a day or so of one another. If we use 30-day months (as many …
We live in a loud and jarring world, full of sounds, interruptions, bosses yelling, parents demanding, children screaming, and televisions blaring in every room of the house. Data is pouring in at a breakneck pace. There is an urgent demand to stay current on the latest news or gossip and to respond cogently, or be left out. It leaves a person unaware of or unable to discern the subtle clues that convey the true meaning of the messages all around us. A saying in the unbelieving world posits that when you talk to God, you are praying, but when God talks to you, you are schizophrenic. But …
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