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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 Grateful Heart   "Forgiven much, loves much" (Luke 7:47).  "Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." (1 Thessalonians 5:18) The anointing of Jesus by a woman is recorded in all four Gospels (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 7, and John 12)  Matthew and Mark are very similar. There are some differences that we can see among them, that some say that there were two women at two different times anointed Jesus. Mathew and Mark say that she poured the  oil on his head.  Luke says that she was a sinful woman who had been sinful all her life and who was crying; and when her tears started landing on the feet of Jesus. Then Luke says she poured oil on his feet and she wiped his feet with her hair. Also unique to Luke's ve

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  What is in your ear?   "this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears" (Matthew 13:15). I read about a lady who had a hearing problem. One day she and her husband were driving from Georgia to Tennessee. They were pulled over by a TN state trooper near Nashville who asked if the husband knew how fast he was driving. The wife asked, "What did he say?” The husband replied, "HE ASKED IF I KNEW THAT I WAS SPEEDING.” Looking at the driver’s license the trooper said, "I see you’re not from around here.” The husband said, "No we are from Atlanta.” The wife again asked, "What did you say?” The husband told her, "I SAID WE ARE FROM ATLANTA.” The state trooper then commented, "You know, some of the meanest pe

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  Do Not Lose Heart   "We do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day."   (2 Corinthians 4:16) Paul starts the chapter with 4:1 saying, "Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart." There are several “do not lose heart” passages in the New Testament: Luke 18:1; 2 Corinthians 4:1,16; Galatians 6:9; Ephesians 3:13; Hebrews 12:3; 2 and Thessalonians 3:13. It is a good thing to remember the saints and heroes of faith who did not lose heart while living in this world and who finished their journeys in this world and now at the eternal rest as we see in the Book of Hebrews.  The Bible calls them "cloud of witnesses" that surround us. (Hebrews 12:1). There