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United News: June 2005

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Remember Your Beginning!

by Janet Treadway

Reading the Scriptures to Your Children

  • by Paul Luecke
Why not take advantage of the incredible, spongelike learning capacity of our children to start planting the most important information of all—God's instructions—within them at a young age? Here are some tips on reading the Bible as a family no matter your children's ages.

Do You Practice 1 Thessalonians 5: 21?

  • by Tom Clark
The Bible instructs us to examine, test and prove what we believe. It isn't good enough to just believe or to accept a doctrine just because it has been taught.
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Treasure Digest: A Cave Lesson

  • by Phyllis Newton
When my family and I were on a tour of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, we found that losing the light can be devastating.

Treasure Digest: Be Ready to Give an Answer: Why Do You Believe in Tithing?

  • by United News
Our Fundamental Beliefs booklet puts it this way: We believe in tithing as a way of honoring God with our substance and as a means of serving Him in the preaching of the gospel, the care of the Church, attending the festivals and helping the needy (Proverbs 3:9-10; Genesis 14:17-20; 1 Corinthians 9:7-14; Numbers 18:21; Deuteronomy 14:22-29).

Treasure Digest: Beginning of Birth Pangs

  • by Bill Faith.
With the recent tsunami, the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center and the war on terrorism, our attention is drawn to the prophecy in Matthew 24. Jesus said, "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matthew 24:7-8).

United's 10th Anniversary: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

by Roy Holladay

Treasure Digest: Overfocused Serving

  • by Lorelei Nettles
Service takes many forms, from the ministry to ushering, but in whatever form it takes, we must be careful of our attitude.