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If, as some people predict, the world is going to end on December 21, 2012, then this is going to a busy year for God. You see, the Bible says that it is impossible for him to lie (Hebrews 6:18)....

The gathering of people was almost entirely Jewish. They were pressing in to listen to the teaching of Jesus. A woman joined the crowd. She was distressed. She called out to Jesus, “Have mercy on...

Remember the Y2K scare? People were afraid that electrical power plants would quit working, and that airplanes would fall out of the sky as computers struggled to grapple with the fact that the date h...

Imagine that somebody had heroically saved your life in the past. At great risk to their own life, they had plucked you out of the jaws of death. Now imagine that they called you up today saying,...

Roughly 2014 years ago an angel was sent from God to bear a message to Mary, a young teenage girl. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou...

Would you let your child sleep over at a home where a known child molester is living? If you showed up for your eye surgery and saw your surgeon and his nurses smoking a bowl in the back parking lot...

When you first met him, he may have seemed perfect in every way, but now that you’re married to him, he seems imperfect in every way. He was charming and handsome; now he’s grouchy and chubby. It...

Cut off from the past... We will not have the benefit of seeing the man Jesus Christ in this life, nor can we see the apostles in the flesh. We will never be able to hear Paul preach. Not a one of us...

Some of you are sitting out there doing your best Mount Rushmore imitation. -Reverend Jeff Arnold Over a fourteen year period beginning in 1927, artist Gutzon Borglum transformed the face of Mount...

My wife found me standing still under the back of the drying rack staring at the kings. Oil was rolling slowly down the slabs dripping onto the ground. “Are you mad that we’re putting the slabs...

In hindsight I should have just waited until everybody went in and scooped water from the bucket and slurped it from my hand. I didn’t, and as a result, I was the thirstiest I have ever been. There...

Let me help you stretch your dividend this year. I know $1,174 may not seem like much when in recent years we received over $3,000 per person, and it won’t buy as much stove oil as it would have...

Since I was making a big step in going to church, I thought I might as well go to a “born again” church. I sat in the seat, and I don’t remember a whole lot about the service except that they...

Imagine that this year some well-known but not so well respected elder were to stand before the AVCP convention and say, “The Lord told me that in the future, the Yup’ik people will be deported fr...

If I told you that I had been abducted by aliens and lived to tell about it, you would probably doubt me. After all, you have probably never seen aliens, and you have never experienced alien...

I don’t know if it was you or not, but when my phone call got cut off, I could suddenly hear your conversation. You have a good cell phone, because I could hear everything that was going on. I...

The late Charlie K. Paul’s steam bath is still the largest qasgiq I have ever been in (for non-Yup’ik speakers, qasgiq is the word for the traditional men’s house, but in modern times is also...

Last week we went over the rules for the children’s game, Simon Says. Then we looked at the most famous Simon the world has ever known. You may know of him as Peter or Saint Peter, but his given...

Simon Says was a popular game. Its popularity has of late been usurped by Nintendo, Facebook, and text messaging, but in its heyday, Simon Says ruled. Teachers would play it with their classes under...

Which of the following acts would you be willing to commit to save the lives of your children or grandchildren (Please check all that apply): 1. Let surgeons remove one of your kidneys to transplant...

For thousands of years people have understood the concept of the resurrection. Even in the midst of his horrible tragedies, Job was able to speak in faith: For I know that my Redeemer lives, and he...

As Jacob slept in the night, a man apparently accosted him. Unbeknownst to Jacob, it was actually the angel of the Lord. They began to wrestle, and Jacob could not be subdued. Using his supernatural...

I looked around the cabin. There were over a hundred people, but none of them was paying attention to the airline stewardess as she went through her pre-flight safety briefing. Some were reading,...

Put yourself in his shoes Imagine this: you are praying in the morning as you always do, and then you receive a message from God. He makes it clear to you that he is calling you. He is calling you to...