December, 2023

• 20 December

  North Wisconsin Christmas

  

  Come with me to the heart and mind of a teenager experiencing Christmas in North Wisconsin. This is not a modern Christmas, but rather Christmas as experienced in the 1940s and 50s. We expected Christmas to be cold with lots of snow. If it wasn’t, what a disappointment. The white ...

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• 19 December

  Victorious In Battles On Our Knees

  

  Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. The Bible doesn’t really get into great details or specifics about Deborah. She is referred to as a prophetess, and a highly recognized and esteemed judge ...

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• 19 December

  The Shady Lady From Jericho

  

  James 2:24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? How can we know that we have a true ...

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• 18 December

  Emmanuel: God With Us (Chinese, English)

  

  EMMANUEL GOD WITH US Matthew 1:23 以马内利 神与我们同在 马太福音1:23 What does this mean? 这句话是什么意思？ Today, we will see what this means for us in real life, how does it apply for us today? 今天，我们将看到这在现实生活中对我们意味着什么，它如何适用于今天的我们？ Let’s take every letter of this wonderful word and explore the true meaning of Christmas 让我们从这个奇妙的词的每一个字母出发，探索圣诞节的真正含义。 ...

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• 18 December

  How Many Gods Do You Serve?

  

  There is a mind-blowing verse in 2 Kings 17:33.  “They feared the LORD and served their own gods.”  The historical context indicates that Israel’s Northern Kingdom had departed from the Lord.  God judged them, using Assyria to conquer them and carry many of them captive to other lands.  Then, to ...

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• 16 December

  Weapons Of Our Warfare

  

  1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, ‘Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou has defied. David, just ...

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• 15 December

  Blessed To Have Family-Finally

  

  2 Corinthians 1:3 -4 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ...

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• 15 December

  Life Is Full Of The Unexpected

  

  Recently, while driving on the freeway, a speeding and impatient driver was going in between cars from lane to lane. You know the kind of driver I am talking about. In this case the driver cut in very close to the front of my vehicle. There could have been a ...

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• 14 December

  Preach The Word

  

  Every once in a while, I’ll come across something I didn’t know. Apparently now that triggers something in my brain and I have to know all the things about this thing. In this particular instance it is a word. A Greek word to be exact. That word today my friends ...

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• 14 December

  God’s Forgiving Favor

  

  Father, God I pray this day, that Your favor would come this way. Our country has drifted away from You, thinking that they knew what to do. They’re not as fond of You as before, for they’ve turned as if to ignore. Hearts of love towards one another, have turned ...

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