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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

LETTER TO A YOUNG CURATE

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Dear Mr _ As I told you last Sunday night, when leaving St _ Church, I have been going to write to you about your sermon given there at Matins two weeks previously but have been rather pushed for time. First, though, let me say that I would like to congratulate you on your courage…

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WHAT DID JESUS MEAN BY ‘THE EYE OF A NEEDLE’?

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MANY Bible students have attempted to prove that when Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven,” the phrase eye of a needle referred to the small gate that was opened in the great gate of…

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THE ENGLISH WORD “GENTILE” – A SAD ERROR IN TRANSLATION

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AN examination of this word, and how it came into the English language from the Bible, shows that it was evidently coined by the translators of the Authorised Version to their individualistic understanding that excluded the main national theme of Israel from the New Testament. Ignorant of the whereabouts of dispersed Israel and the Nation…

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MAN HAS MADE HIS OWN COMMANDMENTS

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1) I have made the self supreme and thou shalt have no other god. 2) Thou shalt deck thy self with flash clothes and protect thyself with lucky charms. 3) Thou shalt not doubt the scientists when they tell thee thou art conditioned by thy glands nor contradict their dogmas. 4) Remember that thou go…

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