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Serving The Living God

Carl Pollard I know I’m not old enough to say this, but when I was younger I used to lay in bed at night and try to imagine what God looked like. I would try to put a face to Him, I’d wonder what He was doing, and I would ask myself if God knew that I was thinking about Him. I still ask those same questions to this day. I’m sure that most if not all of you who are reading this believe that there…

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The Word

Gary Pollard John emphasized Jesus’s identity as the Word. Many ancient traditions hold that the universe was created with the spoken word 1— something slowly becoming more accepted by even scientific minds (always the last to understand or accept truths taught in religion) thanks to cymatics. The ancient concept of magic was absolutely nothing like ours today. Specific spoken words in specific…

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My God Is So Big

Dale Pollard “My problems are so big, my worries so mighty, there’s nothing my anxieties can’t do.” Wait, that’s not how that song goes. It’s been said that the there are more stars in the known universe than all of the sand on earth combined. That being said, in just one grain of sand there are more atoms than all of the stars. That’s pretty amazing. Our planet is but a speck in the grandeur of…

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The Sanhedrin

Neal Pollard Did they trace their origin to the time of the wilderness wandering, where God tells Moses to appoint 70 elders to help in a specific situation (Num. 11:16-25)? Throughout the Old Testament, we find elders in Israel gathered for specific purposes, but the formal body of administrators, civic and religious instructors, arbitrators, and rulers are not found until less than a century…

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Two Swords and One Cup: What Jesus Meant When He Told the Disciples to Buy a Sword

Brent Pollard Two Swords and One Cup: What Jesus Meant When He Told the Disciples to Buy a Sword In my daily Bible readings, I have always been intrigued by Luke 22.36. Jesus tells His followers who lack a sword to sell their coats to buy one. When they take inventory, Luke notes that they have two swords, which Jesus declares sufficient (Luke 22.38). When Judas appears, the disciples ask if it…

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What Would Jesus Ask You To Give Up

Carl Pollard If Jesus looked you in the eyes today and said, “Sell everything you own,” what would you do? Most of us immediately start explaining why He couldn’t possibly mean that. We tell ourselves He was speaking to one man in a unique situation. While that’s true, it still leaves an important question, why did Jesus say it? The rich young ruler came running to Jesus with one of the…

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The Colossus of Jerusalem

1 Chronicles 21:16 Dale Pollard In the conclusion of King David’s ill-advised military census, 1 Chronicles 21:16 hits the reader with one of the most terrifying visuals in all of scripture. Having already struck 70,000 Israelites with pestilence, the text records: “David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a sword drawn in his hand extended over…

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One

Gary Pollard Today’s article is simply a reading of John 17, Jesus having just laid everything out plainly before his disciples, revealing that he came into the earth from outside of the earth, and will go back the way he came. His prayer is entirely altruistic, a plea for protection and, above all, for unity. After Jesus said these things, he looked toward heaven and prayed, “Father,…

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Substituting A Pound Of Arsenic For A Pinch Of Salt

Neal Pollard You go into a hardware store, walk down an aisle, and walk up to a bin, looking for a 1/2″ X 6″ zinc-plated hex lag bolt or a 1/2″ sheet of birch plywood or a 3/4″ galvanized malleable iron tee coupling. Each of these is in a different department, serves a different purpose, has a different look and feel, and has a different value. For each, the size, material, and thickness…

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Asleep At The Screen

Brent Pollard A few nights ago, I made an error while browsing an online store via my tablet in bed on my ventilator. As I slowly dozed off to sleep, my thumb inadvertently pressed a few buttons, ordering a $70 package deal consisting of a new razor, 12 replacement razor blade cartridges, and 5 outdoor straw archery targets. The following morning, I received an email confirmation for the…

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The Eleventh Commandment

Carl Pollard One of the most misquoted verses in the Bible has to be Matthew 7:1, “Judge not.” Those two words have become the universal conversation stopper. Mention that drunkenness is sinful? “Judge not.” Say that living together outside of marriage isn’t God’s design? “Judge not.” Teach that Jesus is the only way to the Father? “Judge not.” In our culture, those words have been turned into…

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Doubting Can Be Good

Gary Pollard Today’s article will be a brief excerpt from Today’s Handbook for Solving Bible Difficulties (1990, D.E. O’Brien, pp. 18-19). I do not agree with everything this author wrote and have found some of this excerpt — read in the broader context of his own sometimes-narrow interpretations — to be ironic. If we read this excerpt out of context, though, it’s an excellent reminder to read…

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Did Giants Build the Great Stone Cities of Canaan? 

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God's Instructions For Being Patient

Neal Pollard Lately, I’ve put together toys and furniture that came with “instructions,” only they are a series of steps with pictures and illustrations and no words! As a lefty in a right-handed world, I find that doubly difficult. But, ultimately, even these instructions prove helpful enough to finish the job. The Bible is a divine instruction manual, designed not only to reveal God’s…

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Grace Is Not A Cover For Irreverence

Brent Pollard  Imagine a man who has been fully pardoned by the king—sealed, signed, undeserved—who then strolls into the throne room, drops a bruised apple on the dais steps, and yawns his way through the royal anthem. He has mixed up mercy with permission.  He has mistaken the king’s kindness for the king’s indifference. There were men like this among the prophet Malachi. They were dressed in…

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When To Answer A Fool

Carl Pollard Proverbs 26:4-5 sounds confusing at first “Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.” So which is it? Do we answer the fool, or do we stay quiet?  The answer is…yes. Solomon isn’t contradicting himself. He’s teaching wisdom. There are times when answering a foolish person only…

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