Guided by Godly Principles The following is an excerpt from Reprint 336. The restraint of the Gospel is the most perfect liberty. A divine hand holds us from evil that we may be free to do good. When I was a child my nearest neighbor had occasion to repair some breaks in the roof of one of his barns. So he sent his “hired man” aloft to do the work. There was not a sign of any staging built nor so much […]
Restoration of What was Lost “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you;and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family” […]
People with a Vision “If you want to know the value of freedom, ask people who only dream of having it” (Frank Sonnenberg). Many people with vision and courage have struggled for freedom from various oppressors. Some have turned to violence while others practiced peaceful protest. The struggle began when mankind fell into the prison house of sin. Within its walls were the smaller restraints of bigotry and greed. The wealthy oppressed the poor, while one race enslaved another. Along the way […]
Hope for the Future “I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house” (Isaiah 42:6, 7). Few can appreciate what it means to never have seen the light of day. In 2016, the US Census […]