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With this issue of Gospel Gazette Online we begin the second year of its publication on the Internet. We appreciate immensely the support of both writers and readers over the past 12 months. Your suggestions and other constructive criticisms whereby we may be able to improve upon this literary effort are humbly solicited. It is our earnest desire that through this tool we may be able in some small way to contribute to the useful service of Christ. We realize that as long as these archived pages remain available, they have the potential of doing good indefinitely anywhere on the planet wherever a precious soul has access to the Internet.

Beginning with this issue, each month for the next 26 months an article by yours truly explaining the parables of Christ will appear in Gospel Gazette Online.  These articles are taken from the two reproducible Bible class books that I have written and published:  The Parables of Our Lord, Vols. 1 & 2.  You may want to purchase these titles now instead of waiting for the lessons to appear over the next two years or so in Gospel Gazette Online.  Pictures accent the printed volumes and questions follow each chapter, whereas the pictures and questions will not appear in our journal.

Brother Basil Overton, whose articles have already appeared in the pages of GGO, is a long-time Gospel preacher and Editor of the World Evangelist.  We are pleased to announce that he has graciously consented to bless the pages of GGO with more of his articles monthly through at least the next two years.  Brother Overton's encouragement toward our efforts is greatly appreciated.  Too, we are indebted to the several others who grace Gospel Gazette Online with their timely, teaching articles.

Also beginning this issue, Gospel Gazette Online will feature an article each month (for the next 75 issues!) on Messianic prophecies.  This excellent and sometimes tedious series is authored by D. Gene West.  The good news is that one does not have to wait for the passing of six years and three months to acquire these outstanding lessons.  The first 16 lessons are currently available as a reproducible Bible class book, called: Messianic Prophecies Outlined, Vol. 1.  Check out this title in our online bookstore.  The balance of the lessons are being prepared now and a paperback with the 75 lessons together is tentatively planned for publication in 2000.

Please remember Gospel Gazette Online in your prayers and tell others about this free Internet journal.  Your suggestions and comments are always welcome and may be sent to rushmore@gospelgazette.com or Louis Rushmore, 4325 Southeast Drive, Steubenville, OH 43953-3353. ~ Editor