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July 13, 2025

Will Regular Grocery Store Foods Harm You?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate and monitor pesticide use and residues in conventional foods. The real question is: Will grocery store food harm you as some have claimed?

July 14, 2025

How to Have a Balanced Meal

For the most part, all the food groups contain the six basic nutrients. For example, when you eat a piece of bread, you think you are eating just a carbohydrate. No, it is largely a carbohydrate, but it also contains proteins, fats, water [H2O], vitamins, and minerals...

July 15, 2025

Turning from Idols

Anyone who has ever spoken on behalf of God turns people from idols. That is the purpose of The Tablet. True religion necessitates that we turn heart, soul, mind, and strength away from Egypt, idols, and the love of the world...

July 16, 2025

The Encouragement You Need

What a genius and yet powerful King we have an opportunity to serve! He opens my eyes daily to new information from His Word or from life that confirms that He is the source of everything...

July 17, 2025

Love Overflows

The more you love God, the easier it is to love others with the overflow of the heart. I can return love—even to others who have hurt me—because I know He loves me. Others might hurt me, but God’s opinion is so much higher on my list that it does not matter so much anymore what others may do...

July 18, 2025

You Were Made to be Devoted

God describes Himself as passionate and jealous for us. It is right to return what has been given. No matter how unemotional some people have grown, at one time they had a heart of flesh...

July 19, 2025

What is True Love?

Why did Jesus say, “You are not far from the kingdom of God”? It is because just having the knowledge of what God is looking for is not enough. The journey and the spiritual war start in the mind, as we discussed before. But you could have the knowledge of God and not have a heart for Him at all...

July 20, 2025

How to Tell if Something is an Idol

There is only one way to find out if something is an idol in your life: let it be taken away. Then, if you really mourn for it, you know that your heart has been given over to an idol. For example, if God took away your food, how would you react? God weighs the motives of the heart...

July 21, 2025

How to Handle Brunches and Buffets

It is always fun to get an invitation from friends to join them for brunch on a weekend or for a special occasion. A brunch usually […]

July 24, 2025

Good News!

I have good news. Even though you have tried many times to quit your bad habit, you are not a failure. You are the exact opposite—you […]

July 26, 2025

What about Sweets?

Sweets are made by God for the enjoyment of mankind. Proverbs 24:13 says, “Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.” God made the sweet to adorn the food—your bagel in the morning or icing on your cinnamon roll...

July 27, 2025

How to Eat Sweets

Most of the world offers dessert at the end of the meal. God created man to like desserts, otherwise how would so many diverse populations do the same thing? I have noticed my own cravings for something sweet as I get toward the end of a meal...