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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in the way. -Psalm 2:12 A kiss of another can signify many different things; after all, Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Kisses can be deceitful. On the other hand, they can and usually do communicate affection. They can express »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to Him. And the Pharisees and the Scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’ So He told them this parable... -Luke 15 The Parable of the Prodigal Son, recorded in Luke 15, is remembered by most »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father—to Him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. ‘Look, He is coming with the clouds,’ and ‘every »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Will not the Day of the Lord be darkness, not light – pitch dark, without a ray of brightness? -Amos 5:20 You and I have a tendency to look at a new year with expectations. Those expectations are affected by what is going on in our lives today, as well »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“But these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. -Matthew 25:46 Eternity, for all the sure promises of our future home, is a great unknown for us mortals; the Bible says it is “beyond imagination. Nevertheless, for all our yearnings for the return of the »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him. »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. -Matthew 26:11 Perhaps Christmas is a day your mind is focused on family rather than the poor; then again, maybe you really are thinking of the poor and serving them on a day like today. »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests.’ -Luke 2:13-14 Can you picture the fictionalized “angels of Director Aronofsky’s movie Noah appearing to the shepherds »