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What were God’s roles and what were the people’s roles in the Jewish exiles’ return to Jerusalem?
January 1 | Discovery
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A Block of Wood: A Reflection on Christmas, Expectations, and Gratitude
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I don’t know what I was expecting. What lofty Christmas dreams did 3-year-old me cherish in my heart that would make the giant, handmade, wooden kitchen my grandfather lovingly built for weeks in his spare time seem like garbage on Christmas morning?
A ‘Frozen in Time’ Moment
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“It was the winter of 1968, the break between semesters of my senior year in Bible college,” Ken Idleman writes. “Kaylene and I had been married the previous August and had determined that we would spend our first Christmas together in the Holy Land . . .”
THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘The Telstar of God’ (1962)
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Television audiences on the North American and European continents were treated to an added marvel of electronics on July 23, 1962, when live transmissions were beamed off the Telstar satellite. But as Solomon said, “There is no new thing under the sun.” God long ago placed in the sky His own Telstar, commonly called the “Star of Bethlehem.” . . .
‘All Is Well’
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Christmas means many things to David Empson, with most of his thoughts centering on family gatherings and music.
‘It’s Christmas Time in the City’
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“All my Christmas memories are framed by the city where I both spent my childhood and where my wife and I raised our daughter,” Steve Carr shares in today’s Christmas remembrance. “And for me, nothing says Christmas in Cincinnati like the live Nativity display at Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park.”
Harvey Bacus, Who Led OCC’s Missions Department for 33 Years, Dies (Plus News Briefs)
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Harvey Bacus, who led Ozark Christian College’s Missions Department for 33 years, died on Friday. Also, Jack Cottrell’s library collection is headed to Mid-Atlantic Christian University. And more . . .
News that Moved Both Heaven and Earth to Rejoice
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Luke 2 describes a sky full of heavenly hosts giving glory to God because a Savior had been born. . . . Angels appear elsewhere in Scripture and bring significant news. But those appearances are not followed by a sky full of heavenly beings giving glory to God. . . .
ICOM Selling 5 ‘Portable Church’ Boxes
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ICOM is selling five “portable church” boxes.