Good afternoon to all of you. As always, it is a joy to be up here on the Sabbath day to fellowship with you again. Brethren, America is at war with terror. The U.S.A. has five levels of terror alert warnings: low, guarded, elevated, …
Herman Edwards, a former head coach of the New York Jets, once famously said, “You play to win the game. You don’t play to just play it.” For those whom God calls, we could adapt this quotation to say, “We are called to win battles. We …
Many of you have heard me say that one of my favorite psalms, perhaps my favorite, is Psalm 90, a contemplation or prayer by Moses about time, particularly about God's timelessness as compared to man's brevity. It can also be seen as a …

(4) Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
To have a warm, familiar attitude with this world is to be on good terms with God's enemy. What does it mean, in more practical terms, to be a friend of the world? It is to adopt the world's set of values and wants, to desire …
Each year, as we flip our Gregorian calendars from December to January, it has become traditional to assess the old year and resolve to amend our faults and shortcomings in the new. Unfortunately, these assessments have devolved into a series of meaningless "Best of" and "Worst of" lists, while the amending of our ways chiefly concerns foods we love to eat, liquids we like to drink, weight we need to lose, and exercise we ought to do. As for real soul-searching and determination to improve one's character, for most, that has passed from the scene with the dodo bird and the passenger …
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