I am going to speak on a subject of which I most definitely had a wrong conception. I am also sure that most of you have that same misconception that I had to this very day. I am not saying everybody, but maybe some of you do have it, …
Have you ever had this happen to you? You are faced with a problem and are in a quandary, wondering which way to go. Several options are open before you or maybe none at all—at least that you can see. You pray for direction, "Which …
Disunity among the brethren in the church can occur for many reasons. In his first epistle to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul addresses several severe problems within the congregation, troubles that were undermining the …

(15) “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. (16) So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. (17) Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— (18) I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. (20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
We are, to a great measure, victims of an age that is certainly not apathetic to seeking its own pleasure but is apathetic about having a true relationship with God. Would anybody in all honesty not care to eat or to have fellowship …
When a military force secures a stationary line of resistance (in Korea, it was called the “main line of resistance” or MLR), the officers often send part of the force back a mile or two to build a secondary line of defense. This new line’s purpose is to provide a defensive position for mainline soldiers to fall back to if the enemy bursts through the MLR. Bunkers and other defense structures are built in advance to provide shelter and protection. Once an army gets the opposition on the run, it has the upper hand. If the enemy has no secondary line of defense prepared, a hasty retreat …
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