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Council Devotions – December 11, 2013
Council devotions for Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Chapter 51 1 “Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance— all who seek the Lord! Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. 2 Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation. Abraham was only one… Continue reading
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Blessing Bags and Other Ways to Serve
We have within us the desire to serve. Sometimes we don’t act on that desire because our schedules are so full of other things that we don’t leave room for chance encounters. Sometimes we don’t act because we don’t know what we can do. Here are “16 ways to serve in a snowstorm.” Back in… Continue reading
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Devotion: Advent – Vertical Relationship with God – part 1
We tend to do a lot of waiting this time of year. Waiting often seems to be a waste of our valuable time. Whether it is standing behind a line of people at the checkout lane, being stuck in traffic or anticipating test results, waiting is not a very appealing activity, and certainly not productive. I… Continue reading
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Devotion: Advent – New Beginnings
Over the last year-and-a-half, Bethel’s Long Range Planning Task Force spent a lot of time reading, praying, thinking, talking, listening, and organizing. This may sound odd, but much of their time was actually spent dwelling on two questions: “Who are we?” and “Who has God called us to be?” I say it might sound odd… Continue reading
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Devotions: Facing the Giants
Bethel will press pause on The Story through the Advent and Christmas seasons as we prepare for the coming of a king. This is the one for whom John the Baptist prepares the way declaring that he is “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight’”… Continue reading
