Joe Barnett

Lost Love

You have forsaken your first love.                —Revelation 2:4 That was a fine church in Ephesus. In Paul’s letters to churches he usually pinpointed flaws in their fellowship that needed to be corrected. There’s not a single line about such a flaw in his letter to the church in

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Idolatry

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.                                   —1 John 5:21 “You shall have no other gods before me,” was the first commandment, and the second was, “You shall not make for yourself an idol” (Exo. 20:3, 4). God doesn’t

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Obituaries

You ought to live holy and godly lives.                          —2 Peter 3:11 When Ludwig Nobel died in 1888 a French journalist mistakenly thought the deceased was Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and posted a front-page story calling him, “The dynamite king! Merchant of

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