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    Growing Up: Moving Beyond Milk to Solid Food

    ByWade Stanley March 20, 2025January 14, 2025

    About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives…

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    Showing Mercy

    ByBlake Stanley March 10, 2025January 14, 2025

    In Matthew 5:7, Christ said that it is the merciful who shall obtain mercy. James 2:13 states the same truth:  For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. The spirit of this beatitude and the passage in James is seen in the Parable of the Unforgiving…

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    Christian Behavior: Putting our Best Foot Forward

    ByCharles Fry March 1, 2025January 14, 2025

    A couple of years ago, my oldest brother, Dennis, broke a toe, and he was sent to a podiatrist. This business is a big, bustling medical facility specializing in treating feet that’s been heavily advertised with a memorable jingle. We started with a positive impression. The parking lot and waiting room were full up; business…

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    Lessons from the Gibeonites: Honoring Commitments

    ByJoshua Riggins February 14, 2025December 21, 2024

    In Joshua 9, we’re introduced to an interesting group of individuals, the Gibeonites. Having heard of the great successes of Israel (verse 3), they put together a scheme designed to save their lives. Verses 4-5 detail the great lengths they took to make it look as though they came from a far country:  …they worked…

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    Lessons from the Withered Fig Tree

    BySteve Wright February 1, 2025December 21, 2024

    Please read about the withered fig tree in Mark 11:12-14, 20-25 and consider: Fig trees in Palestine may live as long as four hundred years. A well-cultivated tree should produce fruit for ten months of the year in those locales. However, because of the difficulties of translation, some have extrapolated a point from this text…

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    Times of Restoration

    ByWade Stanley January 20, 2025November 21, 2024

    The book of Joshua ends with the death of Eleazar, son of Aaron. Phinehas, his son, succeeded him as high priest. Phinehas is best known for decisively ending God’s punishment of Israel for their unfaithfulness with the Moabites. God praised Phinehas:  Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger…

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    How to Use the Law

    ByTad Morris January 10, 2025November 21, 2024

    Teaching in higher education for ten years taught me that you cannot assume people will do what’s obviously right, and they will not admit to understanding what is obviously wrong. When people are left without marked boundaries to exercise their own free will, they will defy their own conscience, ignore any sense of right and…

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    It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To

    ByRick Sparks January 1, 2025November 21, 2024

    Satan secured the scepter of government in the earth from Adam by right of conquest. He has organized the present world system on his own cosmic principles:  pride, ambition, selfishness, force, greed, and pleasure. The world system—scientific, cultured, and elegant—is dominated by satanic principles, and beneath its deceptive veneer is a seething cauldron of ambition…

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    Jesus Wept

    ByTrent Fiorentin December 20, 2024October 22, 2024

    As many of you may already know, my wife Leah and I have recently suffered some severe loss. On November 30, 2023, we lost our son, Andrew James, at 16 weeks gestation. Then again on July 2, 2024, we lost our daughter, Quincy Kay, at 20 weeks gestation. There were many thoughts that followed both…

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    What are You Saying?

    ByDan Huff December 10, 2024October 22, 2024

    Our words are powerful! They can tear souls down, they can destroy the closest of friendships, they can dishearten, and they can and do cause wars. Our words can build souls up, they can encourage and strengthen friendships, they can be healing, and they can prevent wars. Our words are real, and they have meaning….

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