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Matthew 2:9 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. My dear sweet Pam and I we’re married for 40 years, and God just recently brought her safely home to heaven where Jesus is.  A few hours before my dear sweet Pam passed from this life over to the next, the attending ICU physician asked me if I wanted him to place her on life-support.  I informed him that she and I had discussed that topic many times in the past, and she had always indicated t...

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In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. Yes, when I was younger, I had big plans for my life, but something happened that changed those plans. God established my steps, that lead me to live a life dedicated to encouraging and serving others. Yes, I did go on, and I had a fairly successful career in the aerospace industry, and also during that time God was with me. My wife and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. She was diagnosed with MS just a couple of years after we were married, and we were not Christians at the time. I can still rem...

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And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. I don't know about you but, I for one, have an aversion to stress and turmoil. I suppose that's why I don't watch much television and I am more or less a homebody. I also do not like being around people who practice bad behavi...

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Luke 4:15-19 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: Continued - "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”...

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1 John 2:15-16 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The above referenced versus reminds me of the Matthew 6:24 verse which says in affect, that you can’t love two masters, and you can’t love both God and money. In my 65 years however, I have seen many people who have tried. I am also reminded of the story in the Bible where the rich man asked Jesus what he had to do in order to i...

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31 December 2022 Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal. I was not raised in a Christian home, but I remember we had a large white picture Bible decorating the coffee table. I was thumbing through it one day and ran across a picture of Jesus sitting beside a large rock. I don’t know why, but that picture would stick in my mind for the rest of my life. Fast forward to the early 1990s. My nephew Allen was killed in the first Persian Gulf War called, Desert Storm. A monument was dedicated in his memory a couple years latter at Rock of the Ma...

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28 December 2022 Peter 1:3-7 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. Peter 1:3-7 continued In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These hav...

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25 December 2022 Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” There are many things in this world that people try to imitate. I think you get the idea without me having to describe what some of those things might be. The Israelites expected the Messiah to come as a mighty warrior to rescue them. But instead, Jesus came to earth and identified himself as an innocent lamb that would save his people from their sin. God gives us many examples of things we should imitate in his creation. As a matter of fact,...

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24 December 2022 Isaiah 40:30-31 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Since I’ve gotten older, I’m now 66, we have had help from various home health care workers to help care for my wife, who has MS and is bedridden, and take care of the house. Several weeks ago, we had to let our home health care worker go, and because of the fact that no one seems to want to work these days, I have been unable to fin...

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24 December 2022 Ezekiel 37:4-6 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’” Israel turned away from God, so God turned away from Israel. The people were scattered and taken into Babylonian captivity. I was once just as unspiritual and just as useless t...

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