It is difficult to enjoy daily life, even feeling despair and sorrow, as the contents of the news is twisted by media handlers in favor of an evil government-controlled narrative. Keeping a cheerful outlook can seem impossible. As we …
God has ordained that His people keep His seven annual holy days and that they celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in temporary dwellings at a place He chooses. Members can incur hefty expenses in fulfilling God's command. Nevertheless, …
The apostle Paul writes in I Corinthians 10:11, “Now all these things [Old Testament events] happened to them [the Israelites] as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon who the ends of the ages have come." It is worth …

(3) “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Poor in spirit" does not mean to conduct one's life without vitality, nor does it mean that a person is weak. Would we ever accuse Jesus of being weak? Jesus was the personification of humility. People think of humility as weakness …
It should come as no surprise that the Day of Atonement is the most unusual holy day of the year. Each holy day has its distinctive traits. For example, the Feast of Unleavened Bread has us eating unleavened bread for a week, and Pentecost has the unusual aspect of counting. But for outsiders, Atonement is just plain weird. They think it very strange that we will voluntarily not eat or drink for an entire day. Of course, in this distinction - called "fasting" or "afflicting our souls" - resides a great deal of the day's spiritual instruction. Fasting teaches us to realize just how …
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