Category: Christian Writer
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Christmas Reflections
Matthew 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the Angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. (Also see :Matt 1:20, Luke 2:22, Luke 1:30-38, Luke 2:8-16, Matthew 2:12, Luke 2:13-14 for more examples as the basis of this devotional.) It’s the week between Christmas and the…
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Come
As we enter Advent I want to issue an invitation: Come, find Christmas as a renewed season…… Luke 2:15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”…
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Anointment
May God Bless your Thanksgiving season. Psalm 133 How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down onthe collar of his robe. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling…
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Obedience and Opportunities
(On the Essential Practice of Preemptive Obedience first published by Seedbed.com) Numbers 13:27-29 They came back to Moses and Aaron on the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the desert of Paran. There they reported to them the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses this account “We went…
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Stability
These are the first words from my devotional book, in a different form. I have come to know this is more relevant now than ever before. I have just lost two friends (husband and wife) at the same time to Covid, and we all know our idea of reality has changed forever. My hope is…
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What Makes It So Sacred Anyway?
Scripture. (God to Moses) “Take off your sandels you are on holy ground.” Lately I have been hearing, and have said it myself: we, as a society have lost our sense of sacred. We no longer respect the old rituals, ideas, or places. Perhaps we need to quit lamenting and take a new look…
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After
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come far. The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God,…
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God Symbols
I am editing and rewriting the fifth novel of my science fiction series. The society (the Snow People of Shushimee) the travelers encounter in this book had a written language at one time and, because it was associated with rituals they no longer understood, they had come to see it as evil. They knew…
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