Please turn to Proverbs 18:19. We are going to turn to a number of related scriptures from which I plan to weave together a theme. Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city, and contentions [separating …
For those of us who attended the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, one topic was never far from any conversation: that the church would flee or at some point in time be taken to a Place of Safety and hidden …
We live in an ironic age, one in which national leaders hail individual freedom and human rights as the noblest of goals yet enact laws that regulate and police our daily lives. Because we live in such a highly governed …

(6) I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, (7) which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. (8) But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
Only a little more than a generation had passed since the church's founding, yet false gospels, perversions of the truth, were making serious trouble for those early Christians. Paul warns those in Galatia not to listen to those …
How often do we wish that, when life's events are producing pleasure, satisfaction, and a sense that all is well in the world—at least in our world—things would remain that way forever? On the other hand, when things are not going well, do we not fervently desire that this time of despair would pass, and joy would once again dawn in our lives? We have probably all noticed that things always change. We live in a world of constant change. God has set change within His creation to operate as part of the natural order. How long will it be before the next change of weather? Every da
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