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R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

I have heard of masses of crystal that assume certain forms, but if they are split up again and again, however small the particles may be, the same crystalline shape remains. The crystals are still of one form. So if you take a nation as a mass, its spiritual history will be found in each individual.…

When you can't trace God's hand, you can trust God's heart. Charles Spurgeon

Psalm 8 declares the greatness of God. Regardless of man’s inflated view of himself, God stands alone in His glorious splendor. He alone is Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, and the soon coming King of the Ages.

The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…

Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…

The Book of God has stood so many attacks from such different quarters that to be at all alarmed about it shows a very childish fear. When a rock has been standing all our lifetime, and has been known to stand firmly throughout all the ages of history, none but foolish people will think that the next…

If in reading the history of the first Christian centuries you are asked to point out the men to be envied for their joy, you would point to the believers in Jesus. There is a room in Rome that is filled with the busts of the emperors. They look like a collection of prizefighters and murderers, and scarcely…

I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…

Archaeologists uncovered a rare stone sign establishing the city limit of ancient Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius around 49A.D. The sign was uncovered when workers excavated a new sewer system and is a huge slab of travertine used to mark off a sacred, military, and political perimeter highlighting…

A bag containing traces of moon dust collected on the first manned moon mission in 1969 recently sold for $1.8 at auction. Due to a clerical error, the bag sold on an online auction in 2015. Though NASA officials went to court to get the artifact back, the court decided that while it should not have…

For the first time since forecasters began recording data in Los Angeles 132 years ago, the city failed to reach a high of 70 degrees for the month of February in 2019. The average high for the month was 61 degrees, significantly lower than the historical February average of 68 degrees. That means February…

In a country where Christians are coming under attack by some in our own governments, Adam Mabry a pastor in Boston says, “The world is desperate for a people who are secure enough in grace that they can flourish under Caesar, whoever he or she may be.” Jamie Dean, “Win, Lose, or Brawl,” World Magazine,…

When people watch an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, in general they have some idea of what to expect. There will certainly be lots of falling, people doing things ridiculous things, and many cute animal videos. Some of the segments will spark laughter, and others will elicit groans of mental…

The city of Natchez, Mississippi is offering people who can work remotely $6,000 if they will relocate, buy a home, and stay for at least one year. Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson said the city is offering a one –time payment of $2,500 and a $300 monthly stipend for a year, if those workers will move and buy…

A crew assisting with the demolition of a 115- year- old church to make way for affordable housing found a previously unknown time capsule hidden by the cornerstone. The company Earthwise Architectural Salvage was removing stained glass windows and other valuable items before the structure was brought…

Officials in the state of Louisiana reported that a moon rock given to the state in 1972 was returned by a Florida man who purchased the plaque to use the wood to repair guns. The man said he frequently buys old plaques at garage sales to use the wood to repair the stocks of guns. He said he was looking…

2020 will long be remembered as the year that there were 1.7 million worldwide deaths due to COVID-19. Amid this horrible statistic there are a couple of medical bright spots worth noting. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the last Ebola patient was discharged. The Ebola virus is the second most deadly…

On November 11, 1988 authorities arrested Dorothea Puente for the murder of seven victims who lived in her boarding house and ultimately buried in the backyard of her home in Sacramento California. The degree of her crimes were heinous and unlike anything homicide detective John Cabrera had ever seen.…

When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…

A visitor to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art helped find a missing piece of the “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibition. While the woman was at the museum, she noticed that the artworks in the Lawrence exhibition looked like a painting she had seen in her neighbor’s apartment. She…

Qantas Airlines announced that a seven-hour scenic flight which will take off and land at the same airport sold out in ten minutes. The unusual flight departed Sydney, made no stops, and promised views over Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef before returning to Sydney. Buyers quickly grabbed the 134 available…

In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge the authors write about the importance of anticipating the ways external forces can shape a company’s future. They use a hypothetical planning session of fifteen executives of a major airline at the turn of the millennium doing long-range planning until the year…

The Chinese government is requiring all recipients of government payments to give up their worship of God. “The participants were ordered to remove crosses, religious symbols and images from the homes of people of faith who receive social welfare payments and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao…

The Camp Fire reduced Paradise, CA to ashes. Jeff McClenahan, a 53-year-old college professor, returned to his home in Paradise and “found it destroyed, burned to the foundation.” As he stared in disbelief, he dropped to his knees and sobbed, “Its stuff. But it’s a lot of history. Everything, our whole…