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Continue reading →: Are we producing fat Christians?For a while, back a few years, I felt like I was getting to be a fat Christian. Not just physically fat, but spiritually fat as well. What is a fat Christian? It is someone who keeps taking in more and more teaching (good teaching), and who doesn’t go out…
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Continue reading →: In the Beginning…“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” God’s creation marked the beginning of all time. Happy New Year! Each year we mark the beginning of a new year by celebrating and wishing everyone a blessed and happy new year. I wonder what God was thinking as He…
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Continue reading →: Remembering the ManThere are two birthdays in December I like to celebrate. First comes my father’s birthday on December 8. He would have been 102 years old this year. When we remember the birthdays of people in the past, we remember the things they were known for. My father was known as…
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Continue reading →: The Plan
Christmas is more than celebrating Jesus’ birth. We are remembering that Jesus willingly took on the responsibility/burden of being our sacrifice which is also part of The Plan. This is how The Plan might have come about: The Son met with the Father before all time. Together they discussed their…
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Continue reading →: Dead Sea ConspiracyThe long-awaited newest book by Jerry B. Jenkins, Dead Sea Conspiracy, is now available from your favorite bookseller. It is the sequel to the highly acclaimed, Dead Sea Rising. “Conspiracy” is an apt title for this book: there is conspiracy on every page and around every corner. Dr. Nicole Berman…
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Continue reading →: Brighten the corner where you are… Four Special Ladies, Part 4Phoebe has the least said about her of our four ladies, but what is said is the most easy with which to identify. She was a sister in Christ and a servant of the church in Cenchrea. Phoebe, apparently, is the one carrying the letter to the Roman church. At…
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Continue reading →: The Hostess with the Mostest – Four Special Ladies – Part 3Lady #3 is Priscilla (Acts 18:1-3, 18-23, 24-26). Priscilla is never mentioned in Scripture without her husband Aquila, and her name is usually mentioned first which was unusual for that time. She and her husband were tentmakers. Paul also practiced the trade of tentmaking to help support himself in his…
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Continue reading →: A Servant-Leader – Four Special Ladies – Part 2Lydia (Acts 16:6-11, 12-15) sold purple dye and purple cloth. She was a prosperous businesswoman from Thyatira doing business in Philippi. The color purple was restricted to only the rich and influential people because purple was the most precious of all colors. So, Lydia’s clientele was the rich and famous.…
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Continue reading →: Four special ladies – Part 1There are four special ladies in the Bible that are barely mentioned, but their impact socks a punch. I’m going to introduce you to these ladies in four separate blogs. They each have a story to tell and something to teach us, and together they pack a wallop! What’s in…
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Continue reading →: What’s up?There is a two-letter word that probably has more meaning than almost any other two-letter word. The word is “up”. It’s easy to understand the up meaning toward the sky, or toward the top of a list. But why when we awaken in the a.m., do we wake up? At…
Marilynn Lester
The journey never ends…
He who began a good work in you shall perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. – Philippians 1:6
Current Project…
The Long Trek
A story about a family walking alone from Danzig, Prussia, to Chortiza, Southern Russia, in the early 1800’s. Napoleon and his soldiers are dominating the countryside. Gypsies are roaming by clans from place to place. The main character, Gertie, has a lot to process in dealing with people outside her comfortable Mennonite community and learning to forgive people within her home community. Her desire to reflect the love of Christ puts a challenging perspective on her encounters with other people.
Marilynn…
Was raised in the Mennonite community. She can trace her roots way back to the 1700’s in Prussia. Marilynn, as a history buff, has always been curious about the trip her ancestors took from Prussia to Southern Russia (Ukraine) and what they could have encountered between the two points. Marilynn has done an incredible amount of research to discover the political and social climate of the day and is attempting to put it in fiction story form for other readers to enjoy.
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In 212 instances out of 250 the most influential person (in an individual’s life) had been a woman. – Eugenia Price, Woman to Woman.
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