While God has perfect memory, He chooses not to remember our sins as long as we don't repeat them. We, on the other hand, are often plagued with the memories of past guilt for sins we have committed. Guilt is a natural consequence of …
An elementary art teacher once asked her class to draw pictures that would illustrate or portray the concepts of peace and tranquility. The students for the most part predictably latched onto the typical or stereotypical scenes: blue …
We live in the Information Age. News hits us from the four corners of the earth, making the journey in mere minutes. Images flash before us on the screens of televisions, computers, and phones. The Internet hums and thrums in and out of …

(15) "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Proselytes were common in the days of the apostles. Acts 2:10 records their presence, with the Jews, in Jerusalem on Pentecost. Nicolas, "a proselyte from Antioch," is numbered in Acts 6:5 as an original deacon. Finally, Acts 13:43, …
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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