Belltower
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Advent: Preparing for God’s Mission | Christmas: God’s Step Toward Us in Mission
From December 2014 Bethel Bell Tower newsletter 1If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in…
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Where is your heart?
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~ Matthew 6:21 & Luke 12:34 I know I shouldn’t be amazed at how quickly time flies, but I am. It feels like just yesterday when Caroline was beginning high school. It wasn’t that long ago when Vicki and I married. But one thing…
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A Time to Celebrate!
The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground…
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“Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars”
5[God] brought [Abram] outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then [God] said to [Abram], “So shall your descendants be.” 6And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. ~ Genesis 15:5-6 The title of this article comes from the…
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Welcoming All of God’s Children
35[Jesus] sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and…
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