It would always disturb my mother when I would say, “I don’t really have many – if any – memories of my childhood.” Though I grew up in a healthy, Christian environment and was, as far as I remember, a happy child, my memories of my pre-high school years are extremely limited. I like to say that I was too focused upon enjoying the present to spend time hanging on to the past.
“Zion,” “Jerusalem,” “His house,” and “mountains” are all places where God conveyed His Word (truth and grace) to the people; which has been recorded for us in the Bible. See Isaiah 55 and John 11 for more on the way of the Lord.
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A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
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Today is a further transition from readings about the 2nd coming of Jesus to readings about the 1st coming of Jesus. “Malachi” is Hebrew, meaning, “My Messenger.” Today’s OT reading comes from God’s last word to the Israelites in 400 BC. Israel was not listening so God stopped talking to them until John began to prepare the way for the public ministry of Jesus in 28AD.
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Bob Seger fans will remember the lyrics. “On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moanin’ out his one note song … When you’re ridin’ sixteen hours and there’s nothing’ much to do and you don’t feel much like ridin’ you just wish the trip was through.” He and the Silver Bullet Band released this song, “Turn the Page”, the year Monica and I were married.
See one of the H.I.S. II ladies in the west entrance to purchase yours! Also available from Linda in the church office. The purchase of this card will help H.I.S. II with their funding for servant events in the upcoming year. Thank You for your support!
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Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
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I am far, far from the perfect husband, so those familiar words of St. Paul (who, I believe never was a husband) in many ways terrify me. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. … In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies.” (Ephesians 5.25, 28)
Advent begins with an OT prophecy about God’s promise to send a Savior – which He did. God always keeps His Word, the Rock our life and hope is built on. Notice that the name, “the LORD IS our Righteousness” is what SHE will be called. “SHE” is referring to us, the body of believers, also known as the Bride of Christ (see Ephesians 5.25-27.
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Please pray for the family of Ralph A. Aiello, husband of Marilyn Heiber, who many of STL members know. He was called home on December 1. Visitation will be held Thursday, December 5th, from 2 pm to 7 pm, with a Eulogy Service at 7 pm at McCabe Funeral Home, 851 N. Canton Center Rd., Canton. He will lie in state Friday, December 6th, from 10:30 am until the time of his Funeral Mass at 11:00 am at St. Anthony Catholic Church, 409 W. Columbia Ave., Belleville. Following the luncheon a committal service will be held at 2:30 pm at Soop Cemetery, 49250 Old Denton Rd., Belleville.
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