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Developing Discernment
The musicians of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra were once asked to name the most effective conductor. Arturo Toscanini won, hands down. When asked why, one of the instrumentalists said, "He could anticipate when you were about to …
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Take My Yoke Upon You
"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." —Matthew 11:30 Every year, after spending eight days at the Feast of Tabernacles and being filled with spiritual food in abundance, we must return home. Most of us just do not want it to end …
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The Root of Jesse
When settlers arrived on America’s shores in the early seventeenth century, endless miles of trees met their eyes as an immense forest covered much of the eastern seaboard. To grow their crops, the colonists had to clear the forestland …
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Jeremiah 17:5-7
(5) Thus says the LORD:
“ Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the LORD.
(6) For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited.
(7) ' Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
If our trust, faith, or confidence is in any person—and this would certainly include ourselves—God says that we are cursed! Such a wretched belief system cannot help but bear diseased and poisonous fruit. If we depend on …
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The Impossible Metric
by David C. Grabbe"The days of our lives are seventy years," writes Moses in Psalm 90:10. King David concurs: "Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psalm 144:4). Unlike God, "who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15), we mortals have a limited existence. Due to our finite time, we tend to view things through the lens of immediacy. We continually take stock of where we are and how much progress we have made toward this or that goal. We take a short-term view of time—relative to God, at least—and in our zeal for efficiency, we measure where we are against where we have been to get an idea of …
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Forerunner Magazine
Three of our four daughters have been married over the past few years. We think the world of our three sons-in-law and are now eagerly …
The church of God has long taught that God's holy days reveal His unfolding plan. The process of salvation, depicted primarily in the …
Will someone please explain how a person can be more than the sum of his parts? It seems illogical, when we consider all the parts of …
In his book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes a useful observation: The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of …
The four gospels provide the foundation for many aspects of Christianity, "Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians …
In Ephesians 4:11-16, the apostle Paul famously explains the reasons for Christ's gift of the ministry to His church: “for the …
