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Bible Student’s Radio is dedicated to the - promotion of Bible study - encouragement of the believer’s growth in grace - recovery of truth that has too long been hidden under the veils of traditionalism, prejudice, misunderstanding and fear. Bible Student’s Radio is not connected with any "Church," "Movement," "Organization," "Society," "Mission," or any other separate body of believers, but is sent forth to and for all of God’s saints.

24/12/2025

The Birth of Christ Is an Announcement of Joy

The angel did not offer a suggestion. He made an announcement:

I bring you an evangel of great joy – for all people.

Not for a few;
Not for the willing;
Not for the deserving;

Joy – for all.

This is why joy and peace dominate the Christmas story.

Mary rejoices.
The magi rejoice.
The shepherds rejoice.
The heavens rejoice.

Christmas is the proclamation that joy has entered the world.

—Steve Martin

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23/12/2025

My Most Precious Possession

The consciousness of God is my most precious possession.

It supports me in my trials and tempers my success. It changes life from a desperate gamble to an exultant assurance that I cannot miss His goal. I would not trade it for all the mines of golden California. All the pearls of the Pacific could not purchase it from me.

— A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)

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22/12/2025

Suffering as Victory, Not Defeat

Satan surely saw the cross as his moment of triumph, until he realized what had actually taken place.

Yet the irony of the plan is that the very suffering he orchestrated became the evidence of his own defeat. Every lash, every mockery, every spike was another step toward the moment when sin and death would be broken.

Colossians 2:15 tells us that, through the cross, Christ stripped the sovereignties and authorities with boldness, making a show of them, triumphing over them in it. The suffering was the means of that triumph, and the secrets that God kept hidden in Himself prior to the Apostle Paul needed to be hidden from celestial beings more than from men.

— Stephen Hill

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21/12/2025

Revised and Corrected by the Author

The Self-Epitaph of a Young
Benjamin Franklin (Age 22)

The body of B. Franklin, Printer.

Like the Cover of an Old Book,
Its Contents torn Out,
And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will Appear once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected By the Author.

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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20/12/2025

Manifestation in the Super-Heavens

Our hope is the manifestation with Christ in the Super-Heavens

Until the Consummation, the lot of all humanity is death. We will follow our Lord into death, but thankfully, we will also follow Him in resurrection, ascension, glorification and then manifestation with Him in the Super-Heavens.

Members of His Body will die off continually until we are all gone. All hopes of Scripture are contingent on resurrection. And even though we must all die, the perception of our manifestation together with Christ could still happen at any time, for we are certainly subject to death at any moment. And regardless of the earthy lapse of time between our personal death and our joint-manifestation, for us – our perception of it – it will be instantaneous.

— Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

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18/12/2025

Only One True God

When we open the Bible, we see the word “god” used in different ways. Sometimes it refers to powerful beings – like spiritual rulers or even human leaders.

But Scripture makes a clear distinction: there may be many gods (small g), but there is only one true God (capital G).

For example, in Exodus 7:1, God tells Moses,

See, I have made you a god (elohim) to Pharaoh …

This doesn’t mean that Moses became divine – rather, it means that God gave him authority. In I Corinthians 8:5, Paul says:

There are many gods and many lords …

But then he adds something powerful in the very next verse:

For us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him … (I Corinthians 8:6, CV).

This is the foundation of our faith:

There is one God – the Father – and everything comes from Him.

— Mark D. Vogt

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14/12/2025

God Is Kind, Even to His Greatest Enemies

Jesus says in Luke 6:35,

Be loving your enemies, and be doing good, and be lending, expecting nothing from them, and your wages will be vast in the heavens, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

What a shocking statement when compared to traditional Christian doctrine. It runs against so much of what people have heard about Christianity their whole lives. Jesus says that God is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Look up various commentaries on this verse and you will usually find the same explanation. They say that God is kind to the ungrateful and wicked because He gives them a chance to repent. But that is not what the verse says. The verse says it plainly: God is kind to people who are ungrateful toward Him and even to those who are wicked.

This is not what I was taught growing up. I was told that God hates the wicked, and that those who turn their face against Him will be punished in eternal conscious torment in a place called hell, with no chance of redemption. But here Jesus says the opposite. God is kind even to those who are His enemies.

The verse also says that by loving your enemies you will be sons of God. Some translations say, “children of God.” Think about how we talk in English. When someone acts like their father, people will say, “You are your father’s son.” It means that your character is the same as his. That is what Jesus is saying here. If you love your enemies and do good to them, you are showing the same character that God Himself has.

What good news about the happy God. Jesus tells us that God is kind, even to His greatest enemies. What a story. The Creator, the One Who upholds everything, is loving even toward the worst of the worst.

And the only reason He can be kind to the worst of the worst is because He is love. Anything that does not look like love is not God.

— David White

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13/12/2025

We are Aware

For us, who love God, who are the called according to His purpose, there is an awareness that He is working all together for good (Romans 8:28, BSV).

God is working ALL together for good! Not for some, but everyone. When Paul states “who love God,” he is not saying that God is working all together for good in the lives of only those who love God. He is stating that those who love God are aware of this truth.

Our love for God brings “awareness,” it is NOT the trigger that causes God suddenly to begin to work all together for our good.

— Mike Owens
Author of The Fallacy of Post-Mortem Punishment in Light of a Successful Savior

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10/12/2025

Humbled by the Divine Process

We are held and operated by God. Everyone is.

We aren’t aware of it until he shows us. He can seem very mean sometimes, but He loves us far more than we can imagine, and has good things planned for us far beyond our imagination.

It’s happening little by little, day by day. Our outward part is dying and being corrupted. Our inward part is being renewed day by day. We are in the process of being made a new creation in Christ Jesus. God is using every detail in our environment as part of the process. We are all greatly humbled in the process.

— Jeff Bohlender

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08/12/2025

What’s Worse than Santa

Do you know what’s worse than telling your children there’s a Santa Clause?

Telling them that there’s a God Who might burn them forever.

The Santa story eventually fades with a smile.

It doesn’t shape a child’s identity, or their view of the universe, or their ability to feel safe in the world.

But the doctrine of hell does.

Telling a child that God might torture them forever creates a kind of fear that their developing brain can’t process. It doesn’t produce faith – it produces panic. Neuroscientists tell us that, when children receive threats that they can’t escape or understand, those fears get wired into their nervous system. It affects how they see themselves, how they view life, and how they imagine God.

And none of this fear came from God.

The Father Who wrote every page of your story never used terror as a teaching tool. He doesn’t motivate through fear or shape His children by threats. His love is steady, gentle and completely safe.

If you grew up afraid of God, that fear was something handed to you – not something planted in you by Him. And the moment you see that, something inside you finally relaxes.

You realize that you were never in danger. You were always loved. And your story has always been safe in His hands.

— Steve Martin

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07/12/2025

His Good Pleasure

For it is God Who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).

God Himself brings about His work in our lives – working the lofty end of living His own life through us. His will is first produced in us, then the ability to accomplish it – resulting in His own good pleasure!

How wonderfully the Concordant Version translates this verse:

For it is God Who is operating in you to will as well as to work for the sake of His delight.

After all,

For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them (Ephesians 2:10).

— Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

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06/12/2025

The Damage of the Doctrine of Substitution

The doctrine of substitution has endured largely because it appeals to our human instincts for crime-and-punishment justice.

But when applied to God’s nature, it distorts His character, making Him seem bound to a code that requires violence before He can love. For a God Who is love (I John 4:8), this clearly misses the mark.

It also subtly shifts the focus away from Christ as our Champion and toward Christ as our scapegoat. The result? Christians often see themselves as passive recipients of a legal loophole instead of active participants in the victory of the One Who fought – and won – on behalf of the whole human race.

— Stephen Hill

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