Hello!
I hope you had a great weekend.
On Friday, tickets to the Newsboys concert with Kutless are going on sale. They will be performing at the UCI Bren Center on April 1, 2007. My wife and I will be getting tickets and attending and, if you live in Southern California, you won't want to miss this show!
This Saturday night, Kevin Max is performing in Irvine. Telecast will be opening for him at The Flock Outreach. My wife and I will be there for this free show, so let us know if you will! KMax will be performing Christmas songs and it's a free concert. Click here for details.
Thanks to everyone who prayed for our Christmas song performance. My students played very well and the elderly people were blessed and very thankful that we came.
Welcome to the new readers of this message! Here is your Devotion, A Moment of Introspection, JCSM's Challenge, the Word of the Week, a faith-builder from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained," and the Quotes of the Week. Have a fantastic week and God bless you!
Love in Christ,
Jason Gastrich, Ph.D.
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JCSM's Weekly Devotions (click here to listen!)
"Wake Up Before Your Wake-Up Call"
Joshua 24:14, 15 "Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Proverb 7:24, 25 "Now therefore, listen to me, my children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth: Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her paths;"
John 8:42, 43 "Jesus said to them, 'If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word."
Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord."
Insight: If obeying God and cultivating your relationship with Him isn't the most important thing in your life, then you're heading for a wake-up call. He will likely remove whatever is in His place. Decide now who you will follow and submit to God's will. Choose to follow Him and you'll be blessed and able to order your priorities correctly.
Prayer: "Dear Lord, bless us and make us like You. Help each reader to rededicate his or her life to You. Thank you for being worthy of our praise and devotion. Let us understand how following You will bless You, bless us, and bless others. Help us to prioritize things correctly. Help us to cultivate our personal relationship with You. Thank you for being patient, merciful, loving, and kind. There is no other like You! In Jesus' name, Amen."
There is no new quote this week, but we have numerous quotes online! If you'd like to see quotes from those who framed and founded America, please click here: http://jcsm.org/AmericasFounders/.
What is in your heart and your mind truly matters most.
Rededicate your life to Christ! Repent from any sins that you may know of. Trust Him and experience times of refreshment!
God bless you as you meet this week's challenge!
anapsooksis (Greek, see Acts 3:19): properly a recovering of breath, that is, (figuratively) revival
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained
"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims:
Exodus 17:13 - Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword."
"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds:
According to the text, Amalek and his army came to fight the Israelites. The Israelites had no choice. Nonetheless, they were a pagan and godless people that God had told to repent.
(This explanation came from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained", by Dr. Jason Gastrich. This book is on CD and gives over 4,000 answers to alleged Bible errors, regarding the entire Bible at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.org. There is also a 300 question workbook that accompanies the CD-ROM.)
There are no new quotes this week, but we have thousands in our archive! Visit http://quotes.jcsm.org.
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