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If you did, that's fantastic! I truly hope you had a Blessed Christmas and are looking forward to 2026. For those who may have received Amazon Gift Cards for Christmas and love to read Biblical fiction, I have a recommendation: Please check out: Archangels: Beginnings. The book is basically the Bible from the Archangel Michael's point of view, but keep in mind, this is Book One of a series. I'm working on Book Two as we speak. Archangels: Beginnings is available in paperback and Kindle. AND... Here’s the link if you are interested: https://a.co/d/dzCI9yv May the LORD bless you, keep you, and answer your prayers and mine according to His Holy Will. I wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year! Anita

  www.etsy.comlisting1589111068 In June, I received an email from a website I had accessed earlier for information about toxicity in our food and drinking water, the history of the chemicals, and how these toxins can lead to cancer and other diseases. But this email, a post from their Substack, surprised me, and the title caught my attention: Biblical Israel vs. Modern Israel: A Christian Guide to the Conflict . [1]   I respected the author, so I read the article. It referenced the Tucker Carlson and Senator Ted Cruz interview, and it took us down the road of Israel’s history and Zionism, complete with Scriptures they felt proved their belief in Replacement Theology .   Pondering a response, I opened the comment section. The most recent comment made my blood boil. On June 20 th , Ivan Phillips wrote: “Within the current context, this may be the most important newsletter you have published thus far, and the others have been meritorious, indeed. THANKS FOR THIS NEED...

timothy-eberly-wnrxQGBhbh8-unsplash YOU ARE NOT ALONE March 16 th will be week four of our all-church study on the Book of Job. It’s been great so far. Still, I can’t wait until we arrive at the final five chapters. In them, we will see the LORD’s resplendent and reassuring omnipotence. Nevertheless, the beginning chapters of Job are not comforting. They’re ominous, sort of how some think of March 15 th .  So, let’s take a short detour.   Did you know the 15 th day of March is also known as the Ides of March? Maybe “you’ve…heard the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s play of the same name: ‘ Beware the Ides of March …’” [1] immortalizing the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. However, originally, “…Ides simply referred to the first full moon of a given month. Since the Roman calendar was based on lunar cycles, a full moon usually fell between the 13th and 15 th . In fact, the Ides of March once signified the new year…” [2] ...

  robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash July 4, 2024 , A m e r i c a ’ s 248 th Birthday! The moment the founders of our great Nation made the unanimous decision to DECLARE our independence!   In the opening statements of our God-given, in my opinion, D e c l a r a t i o n o f I n d e p e n d e n c e , the signers laid out the right of “the thirteen united States…” to make such a pronouncement. They found it necessary for "the one people,” us Americans, “to dissolve the political bands which connected them with another…,” Great Britain. “…and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of…God entitle them…that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”   These founders of America proclaimed boldly the equality of all humans, stating they are “…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R i g h t s , that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”   Moreover,...

  www.freepik.com Have you ever read Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee ? While I may have read it a time or two, I can only remember and lamely quote the first twenty-four words. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach…” [1]   Browning was born in 1806 and died in 1861. She didn’t live very long by our current lifespan, but she made the most of her fifty-five years with the beautiful words of her poems or sonnets, especially this one. As I reread Sonnet 43, I thought of young love and the passion I felt as I met, dated, and married my husband. In the early days of our love , I walked three feet off the ground and easily could have quoted these words to him. And I just might have at one point or another.   But after all these years, as much as I love my husband and still feel excited and privileged to be his wife, he is my earthly husband. I await my heavenly Bridegro...