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Hosea must have had the patience of Job. He lived in Israel when the whole nation had completely turned away from the Lord and had turned to other gods, reveling in the practices of the world. This lesson uses [...]
Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash All of us get blindsided by sorrow in this life, which is odd, since suffering and sorrow often seem to be the watch cry of mortality. In this four-part [...]
Servants of the Lord come in all flavors. Jonah was a reluctant and resentful one. The Lord told him to go to Nineveh and preach repentance. Jonah didn't want to share the gospel message with them. He wanted them to [...]
Job is known for basically three things, his ability to suffer well, his integrity, and his testimony of his Savior. I suppose you could also throw in there his immense wealth, but part of the point of the story [...]
The best cures usually follow the best diagnoses of the ailment. In the first of this two-part series I talk about the forms of testimony sickness, the sickness that comes when our testimony is attacked or falls ill from neglect. [...]
This is the second part of a two-part series. To read the first part of the article, click here: The Troubled Testimony - Diagnosis. The first part talks about the things that make us feel lost or alone spiritually. There [...]
This lesson covers all of the material found in Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes. The lesson manual actually only gives ideas for the lesson from Proverbs. Since I have already written an article on a subject covered in [...]
It seems reasonable to assume that if we had to keep one estate before we could qualify for the right to come here, and we have to keep this estate before we can become exalted, and that perhaps we should [...]
The History King Hezekiah followed on the heels of Ahab, who was the most wicked king Israel had ever had. Ahab had desecrated the temple, the House of the Lord, then shut the doors. One of Hezekiah’s first acts as [...]
Growth is a key part of our mortal experience. This applies to the Church, as well as to us as individuals. Growth happens at different rates for different people. The Lord isn't so concerned at the rate of our growth, [...]