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The Shepherd’s Story
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. They were not well thought of, these shepherds. Sheep were the basis of the national economy. Milk, cheese, mutton, wool – a man and his family could live off of a few sheep and the Temple’s sacrifices depended on a never-ending supply. The smaller flocks were looked after the owner and his sons, but the larger flocks were looked after by hired shepherds. And these hired shepherds weren’t like the Christmas cards. It was the hired shepherds people couldn’t stand. Dirty and smelly from spending months in the grazing hills; rough, poor…
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Believer’s Independence Day
Believer’s Independence Day Thanks to http://www.familyministries.com/independence.htm for several of the original references and headings. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 We recently celebrated Independence Day which is a fine thing to celebrate. I am deeply grateful to God for living in a country where I have religious and political freedom. But we are only secondarily citizens of the United State of America. We are first citizens of the Kingdom of God. What freedom and independence can we celebrate every day? Freedom from the bondage of sin that leads to death and eternal separation from God. 18 “’The…
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How Can You Listen to God?
If you have accepted Jesus Christ, then God is ready to speak to you right now. Not words of condemnation or disappointment, but of love and forgiveness and peace. The question is — will you listen? And the natural next question — how do you listen? Because God is speaking, but we don’t always slow down enough to hear the still, small voice. How can you hear God? The Word. First and foremost he speaks to us through the Bible, his Word. Anytime we hear from him any other way — directly, through nature, in dreams and vision, through others — we must always put up those words against the…