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What to Do in Babylon
"Babylon...is fallen, is fallen!" We all know these words (recorded in Revelation 18:2) are prophetic; their final fulfillment is yet future. We also understand that today we live in "that mighty city" (as we read in verse 10). Today, I …
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Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”—Matthew 22:14 One of the most hopeful and comforting passages in all the Bible can also be a source of major confusion and misunderstanding in the Christian world. The passage …
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'We Live to the Lord'
Our American society—as well as other modern and postmodern societies around the world—is built on the concept of individualism. Just a few centuries ago, people believed that "no man is an island," but over the intervening decades a …
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Matthew 22:15-22
(15) Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. (16) And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men. (17) Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” (18) But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? (19) Show Me the tax money.” So they brought Him a denarius. (20) And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” (21) They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (22) When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
Though people in the world heard what Jesus taught, marveling at it (Matthew 7:28-29), they did not believe what He said. Moreover, He intentionally taught principles in the form of parables so that they would not understand, but His …
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This Life of Sacrifice
by Richard T. RitenbaughWe live in a self-indulgent age. Advertisers tell us to pamper ourselves and get all that we can as soon as we can. Politicians promise high-cost "freebies" that only a few years ago required years of hard work and sacrifice to procure. Many people think nothing of going thousands of dollars in debt to get that certain car or house or vacation or ticket to the big game. If we want it, we will find a way to get it for ourselves. Christians cannot be self-indulgent. Getting for ourselves is inimical to the way of God. As Herbert Armstrong often said, God's way is the way of love, of give, of
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“Though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.” —Galatians 3:15 It is …
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