Category: Advent

Exactly

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The 6th month on the Hebrew calendar roughly corresponds with our month of September – it varies from year to year. 26 Then in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by Adonai into a town in the Galilee named Natzeret 27 and to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the […]

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Well, Now!

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A new word for me. Eucatastrophe: A eucatastrophe is a sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom. The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to […]

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But . . . I Will

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I got my doubts, I don’t see any way this will work and I have already tried to make it work, BUT at Your Word I will . . .  verse 5. This is Simeon.  Luke 5.  I’m not faulting Simeon. He was honest. And he followed through. JESUS can work with that! JESUS does […]

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Name Your Town

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Luke 4 Read and see what you shall see.  There’s the temptation in the Wilderness.  JESUS passes! The devil leaves until another time. Verse 16 And He came to Natzeret, where He had been raised. As was His custom, He went into the synagogue on Shabbat, and He got up to read. Do you see […]

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Good Question, John!

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Reading Luke 3 Verse 7! Good question, John! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? I think multiple people warned me before I heeded and fled the wrath that was coming.  Have you been warned? Who warned you?  Have you warned anyone?  How would you answer those questions? Can you answer them with […]

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