by Gary Hargrave | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
We want to be those who usher in the Kingdom of God. So we need to pay attention when Paul says, “The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9).[1] Then Paul gives a long list of those who will not inherit the Kingdom, including adulterers,...
by Gary Hargrave | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog
The New Year for Trees When Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in 1867, he described the land of Israel as “rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary. … There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had...
by Gary Hargrave | Feb 3, 2025 | Blog
Often turmoil is required to bring a new lifestyle. A nice calm household can have a newborn baby, and you think, “Oh, a new life.” You started a family, but it comes with turmoil. You get that baby home, and you do not know what to do with it. Now you...
by Gary Hargrave | Feb 1, 2025 | Study Guide
A Traditional Indian Folktale There is a familiar folktale about six blind men examining an elephant. This parable goes as follows: There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard...
by Gary Hargrave | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi Germany. January 27, 1945, was a day of deliverance for thousands of Jews as Soviet soldiers from the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the front...
