2025 June
Editorial
Who has the right to make a religious law? Governments in this world are authorized by the God of heaven to make civil laws, laws that relate to the relationships between human beings—the second table of the ten commandments.
Daily Living
Joy and Happiness or Purgatory
God desired to bring all peoples under His merciful rule. He created man for happiness, and He longs to fill human hearts with the peace...
Bible
Has no one condemned you?’ She said, ‘No one, Lord.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.’ ” John 8:1–11
Daily Living
‘The matter of the marriage covenant does not stand sacred and elevated in your mind as it should, and you will be certainly in danger of pursuing a wrong course yourself, and endangering other souls by your suggestions.
Inspiration
Encouragement in the Face of Disappointment and Depression
We are given a special message to bear in times of depression and discouragement, “Say to them that are of a fearful heart. Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence;...
Children's Story
Pastor, there must be something radically wrong in your preaching and work; there has been only one person added to the church in a whole year, and he is only a boy.”
Keys Storehouse
Do you doubt that God loves you? Are you afraid that your life has just been too bad for God to want to save you?
Series, Songs We Love
Franklin E. Beldin was a prolific hymn writer...My personal favorite of his hymns is Joy By and By. Written in 1886, he composed both music and words.
Nature
The monarch has a four-stage life cycle: egg, caterpillar, pupa (chrysalis), and adult, which can be five weeks, two to six weeks, or six to nine months. It doesn’t matter which life stage the butterfly is in, when winter comes, it will enter a dormant (hibernative) state similar to mammal hibernation.
Health
Free Radicals and Antioxidants
Second, consume enough antioxidants to keep the free radicals from taking over. Our body actually makes some antioxidants, but not enough to neutralize all the free radicals. So, what is an antioxidant?
Series, Seven Deadly Sins
It was made clear that we must strictly guard the avenues to our souls, especially our eyes and ears, because Satan will use these senses, if left unguarded, to bring about our ruin.
Recipe
Recipe – Flourless Strawberry Apple Breakfast Crisp
Strawberries Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. Berry seeds are on the inside, so strawberries really aren’t true berries. The average strawberry has 200 seeds. Each seed is considered by botanists to be its own separate fruit. Most strawberry plants reproduce from runners despite the fact that seeds can grow into ... Read more
Bible Study Guides
June 29 – July 5, 2025 - Some may suppose that these grand things in the natural world are God. They are not God. ...God is the...Creator, of all things.
Bible Study Guides
July 6 – 12, 2025 - “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James 1:17
Bible Study Guides
Wholehearted, Voluntary Service
July 13 – 19, 2025 - What contrast exists between true and false service? Job 31:24–28; 29:11–16. Why must we reexamine our motives?
Bible Study Guides
July 20 –26, 2025 - How does the Bible depict the vital importance of zeal for God? Psalms 42:1; 84:2. If this quality is lacking in us, how can we acquire it? Jeremiah 29:13
All Bible texts, unless appearing in quoted references or otherwise identified, are from the New King James Version.