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Written by Ray Ogle part 2 In Genesis 2:9, we see God plant two special trees in the garden of Eden and both trees bear fruit. It is from our horticulture lesson that we understand that the fruit bears the seed from which the “nature” of the tree grows. Here was Adam’s test. Adam and Eve...

Written by Ray Ogle part 1 Now that I have had my own personal revelation that Christ is in me and Christ is my life, the Bible is now a whole new collection of scriptures just waiting to be revealed to my knowing the fullness that is in Christ. As I have been growing in the Christ-life...

The wisdom and grace of Alice Scott-Ferguson: Even if you have never been to Scotland, some of you will be famil- iar with the narrow winding roads of the Highlands, perhaps from a postcard of a car off to the side let- ting a herd of slow sheep pass by, or perhaps showing an impossibly...

By Cliff Gardner Unless the inhabitants of the world have been birthed by our heavenly Father, “born again,” they are limited to third-dimensional (terrestrial, earth-bound, materialistic) thinking and living. All human-originated knowledge has to do with life in the third dimension. Fourth...

By Linda Shultz part 2 God was so faithful as I took my baby steps toward my heavenly Father. Not knowing then, I had never dealt with my alcoholism (a symptom of my unconscious reliance on myself), I isolated from men and dating for five years. Inside of me was a deep-rooted, ever-present fear...

By Linda Shultz part 1 My life has been a profound search for my True identity. Early on I was one who loved to explore the world of the intellect. Approaching life from an innate curiosity and love of life, I ventured into marriage at the tender age of 18, thinking I was made to be a mother...

By Theresa Ferraro When a Christian finally realizes—some after decades of trying—that no matter how hard he tries, everything he touches turns to dust, then he can come to understand what it is to die to oneself. Paul says, “For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto...

By Theresa Ferraro part 1 Through the grace of our Father and the instruction of the Holy Spirit, after an exhaustive conversation with a good friend and mentor, I came to an epiphany at the Kansas Weekend in the Word. I’d had trouble recognizing law in general, anything outside of Moses’ Law...

The Acorn by Teresa Ferraro The acorn holds a special place In all of God’s creation. It tells us of a miracle, His plan for all the nations. It was God’s grandest plan, Conceived before the world began, To plant His Seed inside each man, And see His wondrous love expand. Inside Christ, His...

A mighty wind blew night and day. It stole the oak tree’s leaves away, then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark until the oak was tired and stark. But still the oak tree held its ground while other trees fell all around ... The weary wind gave up and spoke, How can you still be standing...

I have taken alot of things for granted as a Christian, even spiritual things. Seems to be normal for humanity to do this, if life is working out we are ok with it. If life is not working out it brings on a mode of seaching for the reason. Thinking about some of the situations Christians endure...

Written by Frank Stigall How did the races come about? God only created one race in the beginning. That race was Adam and Eve. From Adam sprang all nationalities on this earth, regardless of color. However, we are not going to speak of color, but of race only, which encompass all men...

Written by Don Byrd If you are a Christian the un- derstanding of who you really are is contingent upon your under- standing of the scriptures. If your understanding of the scriptures is based on something other than the epistles of Paul then you will miss the secret that is found in the...

Editorial written by Warren Litzman We thank God for the spreading of the gospel. I am talking about THE GOSPEL, the only gospel, the one true gospel given to us in the Scriptures where it is so stated and recorded. I am being bold in this. Some people say their preach- ers preach the...

Spiritual combat veterans by Cliff Gardener A short time ago I had the oppor- tunity to converse with a Vietnam war veteran who had been a U.S. Army Medical Corpsman. He re- lated to me how deeply the experi- ence had touched him. It appeared to me that he was “marked” for the rest of his...

Written by Don Byrd creation of man 2 From this understanding, I glean that Adam was originally created body, soul, and empty house or empty container. I get the “empty house” statement from (Matthew 12:43-44). “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places...

Written by Don Byrd creation of man “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the...

Written by Don Byrd There can be no liberty aside from the grace of God. “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adop- tion, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15). What is the spirit of bondage? Israel was in bondage in...

Written by Don Byrd All Thing's To All Men; “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that...

Written by Charles W. Wages “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor...