As indicated in Zechariah 14:11, God will destroy 6,000 years of mankind's perverse Babylonian culture and will proceed to restore the earth (called the restoration of all things), re-establishing the house of Jacob. God will perform a …
After a series of victories by Nazi Germany in 1940, Wilhelm II—the grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria and the last emperor of Germany—stated that "the hand of God is creating a new world and working miracles. . . . We are becoming the …
We all face trials from various directions. No two people are exactly alike, nor are their trials and outcomes. Perhaps we can learn from the examples of two men who faced problems from completely different directions, resulting in two …

(1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
The reality of the New Testament's teaching is that becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ obligates a person to a great deal of sacrifice—even to the point of becoming what the apostle Paul calls being “a living …
In Part One, we saw how corrosive bitterness and resentment can be to our relationships, considering the well-known example of Esau toward his brother, Jacob. Another example of bitterness in the Bible appears in the story of Naomi. After moving from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine with her husband and two sons, she had to deal with at least two significant tragedies. She lost not only her husband, Elimelech, but also both of her adult sons ten years later. After being left with just her two daughters-in-law in a foreign land, she says in Ruth 1:13, “No, my daughters; for it …
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