Reading your Bible Facts... not enough time?

Did you know it takes very little time in God's Word each day to read it through each year.

· If you read 1 chapter each weekday (m-f) you will read the whole New Testament in one year
· If you read just 2 chapters a day you would read all of the New Testament, Proverbs, and the entire book of Psalms in one year
· If you committed 3 chapters a day a day and 5 on Sundays, you will read the the whole bible through completely every year
· If you will give God and yourself the privilege of 4 chapters a day, you could read all of the Bible through as well as either the Psalms or the whole New Testament a second time, EACH YEAR.

God has written out instructions for you to govern your life by, has advice for everything relating to life and godliness, speaks to all situations, and promises that if you apply it you cannot help but be blessed. MAKE TIME FOR HIS WORD THIS YEAR.
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Some Bible trivia - the middle Chapter of the bible is Psalm 118 (there are 1189 chapters in the Bible). Psalm 118 is after 117 (which is the shortest chapter in the Bible) and is before 119 (which is the longest chapter in the Bible).

The middle verse of the Bible is Psalms 118:8 which reads... It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
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Enjoy God's Word this year!

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Quote by J.C. Ryle passed on by my friend Bryan Lowe...

Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book, I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind. --J.C. Ryle

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It's a new year - pick a bible reading plan - Any bible reading plan - and start reading daily to do whatever you read.

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C.S. Lewis Quote...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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Sunday's Sermon - Ending the new year with advent faith!

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Make room!

Make sure you take time to seek a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ this Christmas.

Remember that when we read "there was no room for Mary and Joseph in the inn", it wasn't that there was actually no room, it's that they didn't MAKE ROOM. Had Herod arrived and demanded a room, people would have thrown out other guests in order to make room, even given up their own room for him... once you realize that Jesus is both Lord and Savior you must repent of your sins and make room to put Him first in all things and every area of your life in order to claim His promise to abide with you and you in Him.

Put Jesus first - because He is and will not settle for second place in your life, "Jesus is either Lord of all, or He's not your Lord at all".

Seek the Christ we celebrate at Christmas.

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Sunday's Sermon - The gifts of the first Christmas celebartions.

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Forwarding this from a friend ... Improv Everywhere: Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce

You've got to wonder what this bell ringer what thinking??????.... enjoy....



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Kettle Cartoon

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Sunday's Sermon - How Bethlehem missed Christmas

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special note... Much of this sermon was from a sermon by Andy Cook of LifeWay - originally published in Proclaim Online. Original sermon & powerpoint at http://www.lifeway.com/article/?id=166513

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Classic Christmas message - Luke 2:8-20

Charles Schulz found the gift of Christmas, coming to faith in Christ as a child, and returning home after service in World War II with very strong Christian beliefs. For a while, even worked as a writer for a Christian magazine. But he found fame, of course, as the creator of “Peanuts,” the most famous comic strip in history. Ironically, in 1965, television producers almost turned away the Shultz’ most successful project of all. When the first screening of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was seen, executive producer Lee Mendelson says that CBS network executives hated the show. "They said it was slow," says Mendelson, who, along with animator Bill Melendez, told Schulz, "You can't read from the Bible on network television." Schulz's desires prevailed, however, and the simple cartoon special garnered an unbelievable 50 percent of the nation's viewers that first year. It went on to win both an Emmy and a Peabody award. Pop Culture experts affirm that the program, now considered an icon, draws strength from its back-to-the-basics approach. The ironic thing is that the program, which intentionally turned away from a materialistic view of Christmas, has become a huge corporate moneymaker. During its 40th broadcast, it won its timeslot in terms of total viewers (15.4 million), and led all adult, teen, and children's demographics. It also earned over $6 million in ad revenue, as companies paid over $200,000 for each commercial airing with it. Schulz's widow, Jeannie, is not surprised that the show has earned such large profits, saying, "[Charles] said there would always be a market for innocence." (Source: Bill Nichols, "The Christmas Classic That Almost Wasn't," USA Today, December 6, 2005, pp. 1-2A; "You're a Good Magnet for Holiday Ads, Charlie Brown," LATimes.com).

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Take time to seek the Christ of Christmas this holy season.

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Homer News Report of Holiday efforts

Here is a story about our local Salvation Army in the paper this week.

Read the whole article here...
http://www.homernews.com/stories/120909/news_1_008.shtml

Blessings,

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Sermon Audio Problems fixed!

Hello soldiers and friends,

Special thanks to Craig for telling me of the audio problem with my last 6 entries. They have all been corrected and should be fine from here on out. Please let me know if there are any further problems, but hopefully the bug is fixed.

You can go back and listen or download them again and they should be fine.

Thanks for listening and remember... we will try to keep my voice as clear as possible, but make sure you can here HIS.

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Sermon audio problems???? Past 5 Sermons & soldier enrollment

Hello to all those who listen to my sermons on-line,

Right now there is an audio problem with my past 5 sermon (and soldier enrollment) audio files, I'm sorry for the problem and hope to have them fixed shortly. If there are any others that aren't working correctly please let me know.

Thanks for listening, and God bless.

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Sunday's Sermon - The Church Leaders who missed Christmas

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Salvation Army red kettles now accepting prayer requests

Great story from my fellow comrads in Spokane.



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Captain's meditation on Luke 11:28

Luke 11:27-28 27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

Just a quick thought as we enter the Holy Season of Christmas...

What an amazing thing for God to choose Mary herself to be so privileged as to give birth to God incarnate - Immanuel. But Jesus Himself says, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

Would you like to be as blessed as Mary???? Read God's Word... Hear God's Word.... and do what it says.

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Quote from Samuel Logan Brengle

Someone recently passed this great quote to me, apparently from Brengle...

Samuel Brengle (Salvation Army) said, "The axe cannot boast of the trees it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, he used it. The moment he throws it aside, it becomes only old iron. O that I may never lose sight of this."

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No special emotional feelings, just faith in God. Oswald Chambers Luke 11:13

I wanted to pass on this great illustration from SermonCentral.com and their daily sermon illustrations they send me free by email...
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As a young man, Oswald Chambers, who wrote the materials that became My Utmost For His Highest, battled a persistent sense of barrenness in his Christian life. He finally wrote: "I was getting desperate. I knew no one who had what I wanted; in fact I did not know what I did want. But I knew that if what I had was all the Christianity there was, the thing was a fraud.

"At a little meeting in Dunoon, a well-known lady was asked to take the after-meeting. She did not speak, but set us to prayer, and then sang, 'Touch me again, Lord.' I felt nothing, but I knew emphatically my time had come. I rose to my feet. Then and there, I claimed the gift of the Holy Spirit in dogged committal on Luke 11:13. I had no vision of heaven or of angels; I had nothing. I was as dry and empty as ever, no power or realization of God, no witness of the Holy Spirit. Then I was asked to speak to a meeting, and forty souls came out to the front!

I came to realize that God intended me, having asked, to simply take it by faith, and that power would be there. I might see it only by the backward look, but I was to reckon on the fact that God would be with me.

"From that point on, Oswald Chambers ministered with extraordinary power. His words and writings touched people around the world, especially when he taught, as he frequently did, from his favorite verse, Luke 11:13. And when Oswald died at an early age in Egypt during World War I, an old Australian soldier whom he had led to Christ had a Bible carved in stone for his grave. Its pages were tuned to Luke 11:13.

Contributed by: A. Todd Coget

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Luke 11:13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

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Sunday's Sermon - The King who missed Christmas

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2 special notes...
1. Much of this sermon was from a sermon by Andy Cook of LifeWay - originally published in Proclaim Online. Original sermon & powerpoint at http://www.lifeway.com/article/?id=166510

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To Rock the boat

I wanted to pass on this great illustration from SermonCentral.com and their daily sermon illustrations they send me free by email...

To Rock the Boat

Survivor Eva Hart remembers the night, April 15, 1912, on which the Titanic plunged 12,000 feet to the Atlantic floor, some two hours and forty minutes after an iceberg tore a 300-foot gash in the starboard side: "I saw all the horror of its sinking, and I heard, even more dreadful, the cries of drowning people." Although twenty life-boats and rafts were launched—too few and only partly filled—most of the passengers ended up struggling in the icy seas while those in the boats waited a safe distance away. Lifeboat No. 14 did row back to the scene after the unsinkable ship slipped from sight at 2:20 A.M. Alone, it chased cries in the darkness, seeking and saving a precious few. Incredibly, no other boat joined it. Some were already overloaded, but in virtually every other boat, those already saved rowed their half-filled boats aimlessly in the night, listening to the cries of the lost. Each feared a crush of unknown swimmers would cling to their craft, eventually swamping it.

"I came to seek and to save the lost," our Savior said. And he commissioned us to do the same. But we face a large obstacle: fear. While people drown in the treacherous waters around us, we are tempted to stay dry and make certain no one rocks the boat.

Contributed by: Ryan Johnson
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