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I just watched my first episode of Beyond Today on your Web site and would like to thank you for the information in it. I will be watching the telecast more often now that I know I can get it on the Internet. I already subscribe to The Good News and other publications and always find them fulfilling and accurate for today. My circumstances have changed recently due to the financial crisis. My job was made redundant. Your magazine has helped me keep faith and my sanity during this hard time. I have now found some part-time work and hope to rebuild my confidence.
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"Search and you will find," says the Bible. Finally, in my old age the Lord is opening my eyes to the truth of the Kingdom of God. For years I was told that the Kingdom is within you (Luke 17:20-21, King James translation). Praise the Lord! I am out of that along with some friends. It's the program Beyond Today that opened our eyes to the truth. Would you please send us three sets of your Bible Study Course lessons?
-M.B., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
We have mailed three copies of the first lesson of the Bible Study Course. Luke 17:21, to which you refer, should have been translated "For the Kingdom of God is among you" (Revised English Bible; compare New Revised Standard Version). Jesus Christ was present among His disciples as the preeminent direct representative of that coming Kingdom. And through His miracles and teachings the reality of God's reign was made evident. To learn more, read our free booklet The Gospel of the Kingdom.
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Thank you for the article "When Nations Fall" in the March-April Good News. I come from Zimbabwe, and so I find this issue fascinating.
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It has been some time since I began to receive your Bible Study Course lessons, and I must apologise most sincerely for not having been in contact and to acknowledge your kindness and consideration in sending each lesson over the last few months. I have so much appreciated the course and the information in each of the lessons-some of which I have been able to refer to in one or two of my assignments for the first year of a foundation degree in theology. There was a renewal form included with lesson four and, unfortunately, I overlooked it. So I am enclosing the renewal form.
-D.M., Cumbria, England
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Thank you for your assistance. I have enjoyed reading and using your materials because of the fact that they don't get sidetracked into denominational issues or theological opinions but stick pretty well to the Scriptures. Sometimes I wish our own materials did as good a job of doing that. I am a bishop with the Independent Reformed Catholic Church. I think sometimes that churches and pastors develop the belief that their job is to win converts to a denomination, and they lose sight of the fact that in reality it's to make disciples of Christ.
Presently I am teaching a small Bible study class for children. Our next area of study is the Ten Commandments and how they are essential in guiding us not only in our Christian ethics as God's law, but how we may abstractly as well as traditionally utilize them in our daily lives as well. I have already read your free booklet The Ten Commandments, and I feel it would be ideal as one of the bases of our biblical study.
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