2014 February
Editorial
Editorial – The Bitterest Disappointment
Among those to whom bitter disappointment will come at the day of final reckoning will be some who have been outwardly religious, and who apparently have lived Christian lives.
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Brotherly love means love for the brother, and we have brothers and sisters in Christ. Paul urges that that love should continue to “increase more and more.”
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Paul insists to those Corinthians who wanted to take the easy way that no man will ever get anywhere without the sternest self-discipline.
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Godliness is the high calling of everyone who calls himself a Christian. Many professed Christians today are deceived into thinking that merely by attending church they are God’s people.
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Can you hear the plaintive pleadings of our Lord and Saviour in the message to Laodicea? He loves you. He wants to save you.
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There flows from the throne of God a mighty river, tinctured with all the elements for the sustenance of all the mighty works of His hands. What, of this river, may be seen by the angels of God, is past the comprehension of man.
Keys Storehouse
Keys to the Storehouse – Identifying the Blotches
Has Satan been successful in putting blotches in your life? “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Inspiration
Inspiration – The Third Angel’s Message
The third angel closes his message thus: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).
Question
Question & Answer – Did Ellen White plagiarize from other sources when writing on health reform?
The following question was directed to her. Did you receive your views upon health reform before visiting the health institute at Dansville, New York, or before you had read works on the subject?
Health
Health – Attention Deficit Disorder
A child is given the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), also called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when he is considered overactive, cannot pay attention and cannot sit still, ALL VERY subjective symptoms!
Current Events
Current Events – Animal Cruelty
Few realize as they should the sinfulness of abusing animals or leaving them to suffer from neglect. He who created man made the lower animals also,...
Children's Story
Children’s Story – The Boy who Took a Boarder
Things went on in this way for two years. None of the servants knew that Thomas kept a boarder, or if they did know it, they good-naturedly shut their eyes.
Food
With juice bars and “elixir cafés” springing up in cities throughout North America, it might be tempting to think that juicing is a new trend.
Recipe
Recipe – Juicing – Peas and Carrots; Blue Cherry
Peas and Carrots 1 cup fresh or frozen peas ¼ onion 1 parsnip ¼ fresh fennel bulb 2 carrots Using a juicer, process all ingredients. Whisk and pour in glass. Drink and enjoy immediately. Blue Cherry ½ cup soymilk or nut milk ¼ cup cranberry juice ½ cup fresh or frozen pitted cherries 1 banana ... Read more
Bible Study Guides
Bible Study Guides – Apart from God
February 23, 2014 - March 1, 2014-He [Jesus] saw the world in its wretchedness and sin, apart from God. All this misery was the result of man’s turning away from God to worship Satan.
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Bible Study Guides – Seek Him While He May Be Found
March 2, 2014 - March 8, 2014- Seek the Lord, all ye who are ministers of His. Seek Him while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.
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Bible Study Guides – Declared Guiltless and Growing with the Lord
March 9, 2014 - March 15, 2014-The sinner can be justified only through faith in the atonement made through God’s dear Son, who became a sacrifice for the sins of the guilty world. No one can be justified by any works of his own.
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Bible Study Guides – No Excuse for Spiritual Weakness
March 16, 2014 - March 22, 2014-Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. To the worldly-wise the workings of the Spirit of God that leads to confession and acknowledgement of sin and to the acceptance of the truth as it is in Jesus, appear as foolishness.
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Bible Study Guides – Secret of Strength
March 23, 2014 - March 29, 2014-Jesus died to save His people from their sins, and redemption in Christ means to cease the transgression of the law of God, and to be free from every sin; no heart that is stirred with enmity against the law of God, is in harmony with Christ, who suffered ... Read more
All Bible texts, unless appearing in quoted references or otherwise identified, are from the New King James Version.