Month: December 2015
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That Kid Is Going to Be Trouble
1 Samuel 2:18-20 18 Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy wearing a linen ephod. His mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say,…
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2015 in Review
Just like every Christmas, this years’ was preceded by the darkest day of the year, on December 21st. But as I have reflected on this year, I must admit that it has not be difficult to identify darker days. If I am truly honest, 2015 has been a year that often has seemed lost in darkness. I open the news…
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A Life of Joy
Ezra 1:1-4, 3:1-4, 10-13 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written…
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Soil Tending in the Desert
Comfort, O comfort my people,says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley…
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Two Hundred Pounds, or What is Precious?
2 Kings 22:1-8; 23:1-3 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of his father David; he did not turn aside to…
Deeper in me than I 