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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  A Healthy Heartburn    “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32) One evening, as the husband was on his way from work, the wife saw on TV that a man was driving in the wrong direction on the same highway her husband was coming.  She called his cell phone and told him to watch out because she saw a person was going on that highway in the wrong direction. He exclaimed, “ it is not just one person that’s going in the wrong direction, there are hundreds of them”.  Here we see two people walking in the wrong direction and talking the wrong stuff . They eventually end up with a heartburn. Wrong paths and lot of junk food can cause you heartburn, which is not healthy. Two followers of Jesus of Naza

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  My Lord and My God   Taken from The Gospel according to John chapter 20 verses 19 through 28. The  disciples who were gathered  together and they were afraid of their life because of the thrust that they had.  Because of the Disciples of being the Jesus.  So they were in a room with the doors locked and Jesus came and appeared to them after his resurrection. That's the first time that they see him.  And they were excited and Jesus gave him some comforting words. They were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.  That's that we read that in John's gospel. But we only see ten disciples there actually Judas was gone and Thomas was not there.   So it looks like Thomas was a little late in getting up on Easter morning. That's what I think. He probably slept a littl

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  Angels at the grave   Because He Lives we can face tomorrow and that is the power of Resurrection.   As We Gather here today on this Easter Sunday, I wish you all a Happy Easter. We all know that many Easter celebrations happen around the world and particularly Easter egg hunt is popular in the United States. I don't know how that came into being and what the history of that is. Maybe it was a marketing technique by the commercial world around us. But the Easter egg hunt taught me about the excitement particularly for the children to find the gift of that Easter egg in unexpected places. They look and search for these eggs and find some of them in the most unexpected places. Some eggs may have surprise messages inside. They open it and read that. Some people place c

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  A Place of Forsakenness   Good Friday is the starkest day of the Christian year. This is why Christian worship spaces on this day have  no adornments, no gold in sight anywhere, no paraments, nothing at all on the Table, no pulpit Bible, nothing but a simple empty font.  Many churches have the tradition of stripping the altar on Good Friday night.  Stripping of the altar symbolizes the abandonment of Jesus by his disciples and the stripping of Jesus by the soldiers before his crucifixion. It represents the humiliation of Jesus and the consequences of sin as a preparation for the celebration of new life.  Jesus cried from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"  Matthew 27:46.  The cross is a place of forsakenness. Jesus goes there abandoned by a