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Why the Phenomenal Advent? Part 2
Coming to the concluding part of the Series titled "Why the Phenomenal Advent", today let's focus on two more aspects related to our Lord's miraculous birth... Priestly Antecedents... If Christ is called both a king and a priest, "...forever after the order of...
The Junk, Part 1: Cleaning out the House
One of the major projects I tackled as soon as I retired was clearing out over 18 years of accumulated junk from our home. Everything had to be gone through in order to determine if we would keep it or not. Although this took time, the real work actually was in the...
The Junk, Part 2: Keeping the House Clear
Last Saturday I told the story of how I had cleared 18 years of accumulated "junk" out of my basement, my garage, the cupboards, and even the dark recesses of the closets. This was a big job of itself, but the real work came in disposing of all that junk. From this...
A Boost for NOT Boasting… Part 3
"For you are all children[a] of God through faith in Christ Jesus." (Gal 3:26) In the final part of our series on "what we need to boast about and what we need to be silently thankful to the Lord for", we come to the subject that matters more than anything else...the...
Pharaoh’s Dream, Part 1: Surviving the Famine
Imagine waking up from a dream where seven skinny, dying cows just finished eating...yes, I did say eating!...seven fat, healthy cows! And the seven skinny cows don't look any better at the end! Only to fall asleep again and have a similar dream, this time with seven...
Pharaoh’s Dream, Part 2: Storing up the Plenty
Last Saturday, in "Pharaoh's Dream, Part 1", we saw that one way to ensure our faith is strong enough to get through the times of trouble in our lives is to "store up" faith during times of spiritual "plenty" so that there will be enough for the times of spiritual...
Pharaoh’s Dream, Part 3: Wasting Away…
Last Tuesday, in "Pharaoh's Dream, Part 2", we saw some practical suggestions for how to "store up" faith in God during our times of plenty, in order to have enough to get us through the times of famine. But what if those times of "famine" drag on, seemingly forever?...
Pharaoh’s Dream, Part 4: In the Meantime…
Last Thursday, in Pharaoh's Dream, Part 3, we came to understand that storing up our faith in God (by making a habit of giving Him thanks, counting our blessings, remembering what the Lord has done for us in the past, writing down God's blessings, and memorizing...
Scary and Not-So-Scary!!! Part 1
Well, let me begin with an interesting boxing-related episode. Larry Holmes, the undisputed World Heavy Weight boxing champion from 1978 to 1983, was in his younger days a sparring partner of the most popular of all heavy weight champs in boxing history...the one and...
Scary and Not-So-Scary!!! Part 2
Continuing with our series on scars: some scary and some not-so-scary, today we come to two more types of "Biblical scars" which are of great significance to us... Slave and Spirited... Back to the Apostle Paul's spirited declaration of his slavery in:"From now on let...