A CNN headline of today asks “Can Things Get Even Worse?”
While obviously a reference to the current economic situation, this sad pessimism is all too common across every area of life. The human condition seems to be one prone to worry. We like to sing “woe is me”rather than follow the 1897 advice of hymnist Johnston Oatman Jr in his classic “Count Your Many Blessings” .
Well, can things get any worse? Sure they can. The economy can get worse. Almost every position we shall know in this life can falter. The key to this last statement …
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Legrand Richards (pictured here in the center), in his Mormon missionary manual entitled “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” (one of the few books that Mormon missionaries are allowed to read during their two-year period of missionary work), begins his work by attempting to show serious problems with the Scriptures. Richards, a former apostle of the Mormon Church, looks at the division that exists throughout the world of “Christianity” and comments, “The number of these churches is evidence of how impossible it is to agree upon the teachings of the Bible when left to the wisdom of man …
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The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever. The word “remember” has been described as one of the golden words of religion. The first thing the Lord said to the church at Ephesus, after they had left their “first love,” was “remember”. Remember the way it was! Then, maybe you can recapture what you had. God called the Israelites back to faithfulness by admonishing them to “Look to the rock from which you were cut.” (Isaiah 51:1)
Someone has said, “A good man doubles the length of his existence. To have lived so …
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(Note: Crossword Puzzles on chapters 1-6 are located at the end of this article.)
Some have seen it to be the greatest piece of literature in the world. Statements made within its contents are sometimes shocking as they come from the very depths of the soul of one of whom God has allowed Satan almost full power to work his destruction. As this work begins in the deepest depths of anguish and pain of God’s faithful servant Job (Job 1:8), it progresses throughout the book to reach the heights of heaven by the end of the …
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In regard to the institution of the Lord’s Supper, the Bible says, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said. Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:26-28).
In instituting this memorial feast, Jesus set apart two simple elements and described their individual representative meanings. …
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