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"Don't Forget Your Loud Time"

Psalm 100:1, 2  "Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands!  Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing."

Psalm 147:1  "Praise the LORD!  For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful."

Matthew 28:19, 20  "'Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'  Amen."

Luke 11:1  "Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.'  So He said to them, 'When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.  Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us day by day our daily bread.  And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.  And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”

Insight: It's important to have quiet time with the Lord, but it's also important to have loud time.  Have you shouted to the Lord, lately?  Have you sang praises to Him, today?  Don't forget to have your loud time.

Prayer: "Thank you for being worthy of our praise and devotion.  Thank you for loving us so much.  Remind us to give you our loud time and not just our quiet time.  Praise You for being a complete God and wanting us to be complete as well.  Fill us with a song and let our lips praise your Holy name.  Increase our love for you and our faith in You.  In Jesus' name, Amen."

America's Foundation

George Gordon Meade (1815-1872), was the Major General of the United States Army who led the Union troops to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, thus turning the tide of the Civil War.  Colonel George Meade, the son of General Meade, reported the facts surrounding his father's last days in 1872:

"Death came suddenly, with the sound of a foot-fall.  There were a few days when friends waited on medical skill, but his heart was on the country whither he was going.  He looked to the Saviour, who was the only one in Heaven or earth who could help him.  He asked for the Holy Communion, and by the Lord's table gathered manna for the last journey.  The words of penitence and the look of faith were blended with his dying prayers.

General Meade's religious principles were exhibited in his daily life, in his intercourse with his fellow men, and the Christian example he set.  As far as his outward profession of belief was concerned, he was an active and attentive communicant in our Church from an early day, and died in the triumphs of faith in the great Captain of his salvation."  - 1872, as reported by his son Colonel George Meade.  Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987), p. 315.

A Moment of Introspection

Make sure you have two birthdays: your physical birth day and your spiritual birth day.  Otherwise, you will have two deaths: your physical death and your spiritual death.

If you have two birthdays, you'll only have one death: your physical death.  However, if you have only one birthday, then you'll have two deaths.

Remember your loud time with the Lord!

God bless you as you meet this week's challenge.

Bethlehem (Hebrew): house of bread

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained

"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims:

Genesis 8:19 - When the animals left the ark, what would they have eaten? There would have been no plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year. What would the carnivores have eaten? Whatever prey they ate would have gone extinct. And how did the New World primates or the Australian marsupials find their way back after the flood subisided?

"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds:

Noah brought plenty of food for these animals to eat.  He even brought extra animals, so he could offer an animal sacrifice to God without making some "kind" of animal go extinct.

After the Great Flood, there was an ice age where many things became frozen and subsequently defrosted.  Therefore, there was a point, after the Great Flood, where places like the Bering Straight and the path to Australia were not covered with water.  The animals crossed these paths (and some were chased, like the weak marsupials in Australia) and went in all directions.

(This explanation came from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained", by Jason Gastrich.  This book is on CD and explains over 3,000 difficulties regarding the entire Bible at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.org.  There is also a 300 question workbook that accompanies the CD-ROM.)

The death of Jesus relieved His critics.

To some, Jesus' death wasn't like losing a loved one; it was like losing the one they desperately needed their whole lives.

Jesus didn't gravitate to the famous people.

You can be a Christian without fully understanding the resurrection, but you can't be a Christian without believing in the resurrection.

Jesus preached to the two men on the road to Emmaus by using the Old Testament.

Emmaus was about 7 miles from Jerusalem and would have taken about 2 hours to walk there.

Jesus' death was the end of the beginning.

After realizing they met Jesus, the two men in Emmaus walked all the way back to Jerusalem that night because they were excited about the risen Christ!

Without the resurrection, Jesus' death is meaningless.

The fact of the resurrection gives us freedom.

These quotes came from God, me, and Dr. David Jeremiah.

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