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Resistance
In Phillip Keller's book, A Layman's Look at the Lord's Prayer, Keller observes of an aged potter in the Middle East. The aged craftsman had crude tools, but he exuded abundant experience. Every work the potter touched he did …
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Do We Need the Old Testament?
“. . . the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” (II Timothy 3:15) An Amazon television series called The Man in the High Castle is an alternative history …
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Baruch and His Wrong Priorities
As part of His message in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages His disciples to understand the relationship between them and God the Father as an intimate, familial one. He begins the passage by saying in Matthew 7:7: "Ask, and it …
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2 Kings 17:6
(6) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Assyria conquered the ten-tribed Kingdom of Israel in 718 BC . According to II Kings 17:6, Assyria "carried Israel away to Assyria." She deported the Israelites en masse, to what is now northern Iran, just south of the Caspian Sea. …
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Not-So-Great Expectations
by David C. GrabbeNear the beginning of his gospel, John makes an astonishing declaration. Though it may be familiar to us, having read it often, its singularity should still electrify us: "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). To the Greek mind, that a god—let alone the God—would debase himself by becoming flesh and blood was preposterous. John's announcement was a psychological earthquake, a force that violently shook reality, requiring a reevaluation of all thought. As fanta
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Forerunner Magazine
The church of God has long linked the return of Jesus Christ in Revelation 11:15 to the Feast of Trumpets. While we do not know the exact …
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“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall,” writes the apostle Paul in I Corinthians 10:12. Using …
The seventh and final festival of the year is the Eighth Day, which occurs on the day immediately following the conclusion of the Feast …
What is the most powerful two-word phrase in the English language? If a poll were taken, it would result in many different answers. …
