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We know God’s ways are above our ways, and we can’t understand all He does.  We agree that God knows best in all he does but some things are just plain strange to us.  The reason they seem strange is because they are so different than how we’d do them.  Who would use a whale to transport a prophet to the place where he would lead the largest revival ever?  Who would allow what happened to Job, or use a boy and a stone to kill a giant?  Who would use hail and locust to rescue 2 ½ million people from Egypt or choose fishermen to take the gospel to the world?  Who would devise a plan so that the first are last and the last first, that the way to lead is to serve and the way to have is to give?  Yet of all the strange (to us) … Continue reading →

Taxes were sky high and growing higher. The economy was struggling but military spending was increasing. The threat of world domination by any one of a number of prideful, cruel, self-centered powerful men was real and imminent. Morals were decreasing on all levels of society. Conformity was the cry of the age. The government was giving out more and more free money and services to placate and win approval from a growingly hostile populace. Religion had turned into an external display void of real inner meaning. Racial tensions were bad as various cultures clashed for control. It was in such a time and amid such a world situation that a baby was born to a young couple who had just signed up for a new round of taxes and who soon would find themselves in political exile. The child they brought into the world was to be called ‘Jesus.’ Sounds … Continue reading →