I hope all of you have had a good week up to this point, and I wish you a good week for next week as well. We all need a little hope and encouragement as things go along here. As we begin this third sermon, and hopefully the last sermon …
In Luke 21:36, our Savior provides us with the two tickets we need—watching (careful, vigilant attention to overcoming our nature) and praying always—to be accounted worthy to escape the troubles at the close of this age and …
It is not unusual today for a member of God's church to feel ill at ease with the world around him. Many of us feel that we are living in the last days of Rome, as it were. We hear about things that we would have never heard of in years …

(11) God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God.
(12) Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy;
For You render to each one according to his work.
When David says in Psalm 62:11, "God has spoken once, twice . . .," He is using a Hebrew idiom that means, "I have heard this repeatedly." Practically, it means God's will always decides the outcome of whatever is in dispute, whatever …
It may sound impossible, but we can have hope in the face of the monumental problems facing, not just the United States, but also the entire world. Our hope is not physical, for no place exists on earth where we can run and expect to find an island of peace and hope. The times are similar to what Amos 5:18-20 describes: Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or as though he went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
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