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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now              Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   His Eye is on the Sparrow    The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 10, verses 26 through 31. These are the words of Jesus Christ: "So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." The scripture I chose for today’s message is one of t

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now              Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   The Dead in Christ Shall Rise First    "The Dead in Christ Shall Rise First" 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Today, we gained an extra hour with the clock change! I hope you all remembered to set it back since everyone seems to have arrived on time. And perhaps that extra hour means I get an extra hour to preach—well, maybe not, since we do have a clock to keep us honest. But this change of time brings a question to mind. A question was once asked to a group of people: If you only had one hour left to live, who would you spend that hour with?  It’s a question we might not think about often, but it’s powerful. People gave all kinds of heartfelt answers: some wanted to be with their grandfather, some with a parent. Then one person said they’d want to spend it with their pastor. The pastor

  Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here Healed for Service   We visited the Holy Land in2020, right before the Covid-19 shutdown.  It was an amazing tour of the land where Jesus and his disciples did their ministry.  One of the places we visited was Capernaum. It has a small hut like building that they say, it was Peter’s mother in law’s house and there was a coat also. It is believed that this is where Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law.  The guide was a very humorous guy. When we walked out of that house, he made a comment, “we have a joke here, the reason Peter denied knowing Jesus three times is because he healed his mother-in-law.” In any case, this story affirms that Peter had a wife. If as the Roman Catholic Church claims, Peter was the first Pope, then his marital status flies in the face of the enfor