Category: Feature Stories

October 24, 2024

The Death of a Child

by Terry Zibin “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6: 23 The death of a child is one of the most painful, difficult, and sorrowful events a parent…

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September 11, 2024

A Closer Study of the Lord’s Prayer: Part Three

NOTE: This is the third in a series of study articles on the Lord’s Prayer. See the introduction to the series, as well as Part 1 and Part 2. by John Kreutzwieser Give us this day our daily bread / And forgive us our trespasses as…

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August 27, 2024

A Place for Comfort

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in 2016. by Robert Bugbee If you read the New Testament faithfully, you will see that the early Christian congregations were not perfect places. Beautiful things happened in them, to be sure. Painful disappointments were there, too, however….

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August 19, 2024

The Cross Won’t Be Snuffed Out

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in 2005. by Ralph E. Mayan “The showcase of socialist architecture: the pride of East Berlin.” This is how the government described the Berlin television tower known as the Fernsehturm. The East Germans built it in 1966-1969 during…

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August 12, 2024

The Gospel Still at Work in 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in 1993. by Edwin Lehman “What must we do to ensure that we will be an effective church in the year 2024?” I recently attended a meeting at which that question was the focus of six seriously offered…

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July 18, 2024

A Closer Study of the Lord’s Prayer: Part Two

NOTE: This is the second in a series of study articles on the Lord’s Prayer. See the first article here and the introduction to the series here. by John Kreutzwieser Thy kingdom come / Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…

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