"Save me!" shouted the little boy. Wind-whipped lake waters had just capsized his small sailboat, and he was in peril of drowning. And the boy was saved, by the skills of a quick-thinking lifeguard. Yes, this little boy knew that he needed saving, but today a lot of adults aren't quite s ...
"Sin is fun!" So scribbled the graffiti author on a decaying brick tenement wall deep in the slums of a large city. While the elements may soon wash these words from the masonry, false beliefs about sin, like this one, will long engrave the minds of millions of humans everywhere. Few peopl ...
Treasury bills, certificates of deposit, mortgages, stocks I bonds, real estate - the complicated vocabulary of our modern money system seems hard to master. And new money-making schemes are constantly being dreamed up. It seems almost every conceivable way of making one's money stretch and g ...
You are cordially invited to attend..." begins an invitation to a formal dance. It is beautifully printed, and goes on to describe the elegant and enjoyable evening to which you are invited. A simple dance or party invitation is easy for us to understand. But many people today do not understand ...
Upon the whitewashed crosses standing over the seemingly endless graves of "unknown" soldiers who died in the great world wars of this century, these words are engraved: "Here lies in glory and honor..." or "A comrade in arms..." or "Known but to God...". Cert ...
Here is a vital question! You need to know the answer! Are the ecstatic utterances - called gibberish by some observers - that boil forth from the mouths of members of some charismatic churches true manifestations of the New Testament gift of tongues? Are they from the holy spirit? Or are they, as o ...
Ask any professing Christian whether he believes the Gospel, and he will immediately respond with a resounding "Yes!" But press that same person to explain just what that Gospel is and, if he is able to reply at all, he will almost surely give an answer that is false! This is frightening. ...
Public enemy No. 1! That's how death can be described. For truly it will slay us all, and at a time of its own choosing. But paradoxically, although we all know we will die, very few know exactly what death is. Certainly death must be the least understood although most relentless enemy! Yet it nee ...
"I am not an animal! I am a human being!" exclaimed John Merrick, the so-called "elephant man," called this because he was sadly deformed by a physical debility that twisted his features to loosely resemble that creature. Yes, John Merrick knew he was not an animal, but these day ...
"Unless you are converted..." said Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:3, "you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." This plain and simple statement should rivet our attention. It literally demands that we find out what Jesus Christ meant - what it means to be converted! For unle ...
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations," Jesus commanded His disciples, "baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). This plain, direct command of Jesus Christ certainly sounds simple enough, doesn't it? ...
When you die, you are going straight to hell! Does that statement shock you? It shouldn't, or at least it wouldn't. It wouldn't, that is, if you knew that many times the word hell in the Bible means "the grave." But, sad to say, most people do not understand what the Bible says about ...
Which day should a Christian observe as God's day of worship? Millions of Christians today - indeed, most - observe Sunday as the "Lord's day." But are they correct? These are important questions, for the Bible shows that God's Sabbath is a sign that identifies His people (Exodus 31: ...
"Everyone knows His name," observed one wise man, speaking about God, "but no one seems to know Him!" True words, those. And ironic words, too. For in a modern world packed with Bibles of every translation and description, computer, millions and even having the Word of God on hav ...
The B-2 stealth bomber, an airplane developed by the United States government, is touted to be invisible to enemy radar. The plane supposedly can perform the ultimate disappearing act! Can it? Or do we know of an invisible enemy who has been around for millennia, wreaking havoc? He is Satan the devi ...
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