The Bartimaeus Blog 2024.40
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebration. Linda and I ended up spending a quiet day at home, and that was just fine with us. I am thankful just to have a little time to rest. Now, the Christmas season is in full swing. It gives us a wonderful opportunity to share the reason for the season and we should take full advantage of it. I look forward to working together as a church to see how we might go about that together.
“We’ve had a lot of folks out for sickness and other thigs over the past couple of months. I am looking forward to seeing more of you tomorrow.
Are there parts of the Bible you read just because you’re supposed to? Maybe you use one of those reading plans that takes you through the Bible in a year, and so you struggle through the numbers, the pages of prophecies of doom, or the long list of laws. You know it’s important, but sometimes it’s hard to stay focused. You might wonder what you are supposed to be getting from it all. I’ve been there, too. Allow me to take just one small passage from the first chapter of Matthew, and show you just how exciting a boring list of names can be when you know the history behind them.
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