The world is perplexed by all its suffering and wars. It is confounded by what seem to be overwhelmingly unsolvable predicaments in the pollution of the environment, deformities in births and criminal injustice. We live in a world that …
In the physical realm those who care pursue pure things because it signifies they seek nothing but the best. Advertisers hustle their products as pure, claiming pure pleasure, pure satisfaction, pure sugar and pure soap. Animal breeders …
In late 2002, the Nobel Foundation awarded its prestigious Peace Prize to former American President Jimmy Carter for his untiring efforts to promote peace and humanitarian goals throughout the world for more than three decades. He …

(5) Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
We generally take one of two approaches to self-examination. The first is something on the order of, "I'm no good. I've never lived up to my expectations. I'm just worthless." Some of us hail from some pretty painful backgrounds. A …
"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46) Can anything be more paradoxical than professing Christians not following the words of the One they claim as their Savior? But such is the sad state of affairs in this Western civilization that, we are often told, was built upon a "Judeo-Christian ethic." The American Bible Society's 2025 "The State of the Bible" report found that only 36% of all American adults agreed that "the Bible is totally accurate in all the principles it presents," down from 43% in 2000. Yet, if the 36% strongly believed rather …
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