2018 February
Editorial
Editorial – Watch: the Time of Reckoning is Near
Could the curtain be rolled back, could you discern the purposes of God and the judgments that are about to fall upon a doomed world, could you see your own attitude, you would fear and tremble for your own souls and for the souls of your fellow men.
Daily Living
Many believe they will continue in their bad habits and sin until the return of Jesus and miraculously those things will somehow be taken away in a flash of light. There is no magic button to eliminate sin.
Salvation
In His great mercy, love and forbearance, the Father separated Himself from us temporarily that His majesty, His power, the brightness of His glory would not destroy us in our fallen, sinful, degraded condition. But He will not always maintain that separation.
Salvation
Jesus gave a summary of man’s whole duty when He said to the tempter who offered Him the dominion of the world for an act of worship, “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve”
Children's Story
Children’s Story – Carl & Grover
Carl was trying hard not to cry. After all, he was almost nine years old, and he knew nine-year-old boys didn’t cry. But he felt like crying. He buried his face in Grover’s soft brown fur and felt better. Grover was his very best friend.
Current Events
Current Events – Your Brain on Cellphones
The average smartphone user checks in about 80 times a day; click on one Facebook or Instagram feed or web link, and down you go into the digital rabbit hole.
Keys Storehouse
Keys to the Storehouse – Heart Longing
Paul was praying for his brethren that most beautiful prayer and I realized that this prayer spoke of the longing of my heart also.
Inspiration
Pen of Inspiration – The Crisis Imminent
All heaven is represented to me as watching the unfolding of events. A crisis is to be revealed in the great and prolonged controversy in the government of God on earth.
Question
Question and Answer – How do you perfect holiness?
The formation of a right character is the work of a lifetime, and is the outgrowth of prayerful meditation united with a grand purpose.
Health
The average person needs eight to nine hours of sleep daily. This is essential for proper immune function, tissue repair, and nervous system and hormone balance.
Life Sketches
Life Sketches – Your Eternal Destiny
Don’t ever forget that you choose for yourself your own eternal destiny.
Food
Food – Tropical Tangy Grapefruit
Grapefruit come in white, pink and red varieties, colors that refer to the fleshy interior. Pink and red grapefruit contain over fifty times the carotenoid of white, which convert to healthy levels of vitamin A, an antioxidant required for maintaining healthy mucosa, skin, and peripheral vision.
Recipe
Recipe – Pomegranate Apple Grapefruit Juice
Enjoy the delicious, refreshing, vitalizing boost of natural vitamins C and A.
Bible Study Guides
Insights from the Book of Isaiah II – Called to Witness
February 25 – March 3, 2018 - To grieve the Holy Spirit which would make you a witness of Christ is a terrible thing. You know not when you may grieve the Spirit for the last time.
Bible Study Guides
Insights from the Book of Isaiah II – Reaching Out to Souls
March 4 – 10, 2018 - The work of Sabbath reform to be accomplished in the last days is foretold in the prophecy of Isaiah.
Bible Study Guides
Insights from the Book of Isaiah II – Persevering Missionaries
March 11 – 17, 2018 - The lay members of our churches can accomplish a work which, as yet, they have scarcely begun. … Where there is an opening to obtain a livelihood, let families that are well grounded in the truth enter, one or two families in a place, to work as missionaries. … ... Read more
Bible Study Guides
Insights from the Book of Isaiah II – Ultimate Triumph
March 18 – 24, 2018 - The great work of the gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power of God than marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring of the former rain at the opening of the gospel are again to be fulfilled in the latter rain ... Read more
Bible Study Guides
Insights from the Book of Isaiah II – Earth’s Final Days
March 25 – 31, 2018 - Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from heaven.
All Bible texts, unless appearing in quoted references or otherwise identified, are from the New King James Version.