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"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human . To research the book, Elizabeth traveled across the country, immersing herself in a wide range of animal festivals — from the Iditarod dog sled race to the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Elizabeth examines these festivals as revealing microcosms of our broader relationship with animals. Whether it's rattlesnake hunts, frog-jumping contests, ostrich races, or groundhog celebrations, these events reflect the ways humans use animals to express cultural identity, community pride, and historical traditions. Yet beneath the pageantry and excitement lies a deeper question: Is our fascination with these spectacles worth the toll it takes on the animals involved? With compassion and insight, Elizabeth invites readers to consider whether there’s a more ethical and empathetic way to honor our stories — one that respects both animals and the traditions they inspire. Please listen, share and read, Forget the Camel. It will be released on April 8th, 2025. https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/…

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Teacher: Leanne Benton

1 The elder, to the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:

3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

“Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws." - Tim Keller

The great “truth” unveiled in the gospel is that the powerful, redeeming love of God is the motor that drives the cosmos. - N. T. Wright

3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. - Francis Schaeffer

Behavior is a reflection of belief.

5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

When other’s look at us, will they see a life shaped by the truth of the Kingdom of God and the love of Jesus?

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Teacher: Leanne Benton

3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

The great “truth” unveiled in the gospel is that the powerful, redeeming love of God is the motor that drives the cosmos. - N. T. Wright

3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. - Francis Schaeffer

Behavior is a reflection of belief.

When other’s look at us, will they see a life shaped by the truth of the Kingdom of God and the love of Jesus?

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Kingdom Come | From Laden to Rest | Week 3 31:25

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“These people needed a break! The Pharisees’ legalism surrounding the Mosaic Law had ground them into spiritual powder.” - Stuart Weber “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation]. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30 (AMP) A) Our families B) Our jobs C) Our minds D) Our bodies E) Our stress 1 - Come to Jesus. 2 - Take his yoke upon you. To take his yoke expresses trust and relinquishes control over to Jesus. 3 - Learn from him. Learn one thing from Jesus every day. 4 - Find Rest. This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” – Jeremiah 6:16 “For those who live under the yoke, there is absolutely no better way to live. Who in their right mind would go back to the gods of Self, Money, Lust and Power? Who would return on bended knee to the shrines of pious performance and judgmentalism? Is not love better than hate, purity better than lust, reconciliation better than retaliation? And is not ‘better’ really ‘easier’ when measured in character rather than convenience, rest for the soul rather than selfish pride? – Doug Webster Choose your yoke.…

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Kingdom Come | From Doubt to Faith | Week 2 28:41

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Teacher: Adam Barnett “Jesus didn’t actually say much about the kingdom of heaven in the sense that we normally mean it. When he spoke of heaven’s kingdom, he wasn’t talking about a place called heaven to which people might or might not go after they die. He was talking about something that would become a reality ‘as in heaven, so on earth’ (Matt. 6:10). So instead of suggesting that we could escape the earth to go to heaven, Jesus’ good news was about heaven coming to earth.” – N.T. Wright Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” - John 11:16 διστάζω – to waver, hesitate, to be uncertain. 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. 21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” 24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” 26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” 28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” - John 20:19-29 1 - Share with others. 2 - Wait on the Lord. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! - Psalm 27:14 3 - Pray and confess. “Doubt is a form of rebellion. It is a refusal to relate to God on his own terms.” – Stan Harstine…

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Kingdom Come | From the Beginning | Week 1 31:45

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Teacher: Dave Brown “Repent for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” — Matthew 4:17 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. — Matthew 5 The kingdom of heaven is like… Sin may be comprehensively defined as a lack of conformity to the law of God in act, habit, attitude, outlook, disposition, motivation, and mode of existence. — J.I. Packer I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Woe to the sinful nation… — Isaiah 1:2 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Cedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. — Jeremiah 2:10-11 Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. — Ezekiel 2:3 Community sins are devastating. Sin breaks the created order, which results first in slavery, then in death. When we sin we trade places and powers with something that God created to serve us. Repent means to stop what we are doing, to turn around, and to go the other way. The good news is about the living God overcoming all the powers of the world to establish his rule of justice and peace, on earth as in heaven… And that victory is won not by superior power of the same kind but by a diﬀerent sort of power altogether… The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love. — N.T. Wright, Simply Good News…

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Walking in Light | Visible Faith | Week 8 30:07

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Teacher: Adam Barnett The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth. I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone—and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true. I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name. – 3 John 1:1-15 “3 John is a treasure that provides a glimpse into early church dynamics, provides a much-needed exhortation to Christians today, and makes a significant theological claim about where the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to be found.” – Karen Jobes 1 - Walk in the truth. “If we were on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict us?” - Josh McDowell 2 - Practice hospitality. When we extend hospitality, we make our faith visible. 3 - Imitate good. Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. – 3 John 1:11 Who has influence in my life, and is their example one I should imitate?…

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Walking in Light | The Non-Negotiables | Week 7 30:35

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Teacher: Leanne Benton 1 The elder, to the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. “Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws." - Tim Keller The great “truth” unveiled in the gospel is that the powerful, redeeming love of God is the motor that drives the cosmos. - N. T. Wright 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. - Francis Schaeffer Behavior is a reflection of belief. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. When other’s look at us, will they see a life shaped by the truth of the Kingdom of God and the love of Jesus?…

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Walking in Light | No Other Gods | Week 6 27:20

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Teacher: Adam Barnett Dear children, keep yourself from idols. – 1 John 5:21 Exodus 20:3 – You shall have no other gods before me. An idol is anything or anyone more important to you than God. “Idolatry is robbery and perversion. It’s robbery because we take what is due to God and give it to something else. And it’s perversion because we give the devotion God rightly deserves to other things.” - Erik Raymond Idols interfere with our identity. Is there anything or anyone more important to you than God? Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. – Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT) More anything else, I love / want / need / trust / desire / fear ___________________. Don’t just remove idols – replace them. Idols can kill your worship; worship can kill your idols.…

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Walking in Light | Love in Action | Week 5 23:13

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Teacher: Dave Brown Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. — 1 John 4:7-12 “The English word love is trying to do so many diﬀerent jobs at the same time that someone really ought to sit down with it and teach it how to delegate.” — N.T. Wright For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son… — John 3:16 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. — 1 John 4:10 Love is not just something God does. It is who God is. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. — 1 John 4:8 Love is the language they speak in God’s world, and we are summoned to learn it against the day when God’s world and ours will be brought together forever. It is the music they make in God’s courts, and we are invited to learn it and practice it in advance. Love is not a 'duty,' even our highest duty. It is our destiny. — N.T. Wright, After You Believe Love is a disciple, a practice, an act of the will. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indiﬀerence; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity…

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Walking in Light | Live Like a Child | Week 4 29:19

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Teacher: Adam Barnett 1 John 2:28-29; 3:1a And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! John 1:12-13 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. To be “born of God” specifies the origin of our identities, impulses, motivations, and attitudes. 1 - God’s children do not live in sin 1 John 3:6, 9 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 6 No one who lives (Greek: menōn = to remain, abide, stay) in him keeps on sinning. 2 - God’s children love one another 1 John 3:11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. "A failure to love others is symptomatic of a failure to love God." -Karen Jobes 1 John 3:16-18 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. To lay down your life is to express love through sacrificial and compassionate actions. 3 - God’s children are confident before the Father 1 John 3:19-24 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us. “John says that we can set our hearts at rest whenever they condemn us… for God understands us better than our own hearts know us, and in his omniscience, he knows that our often weak attempts to obey his commands spring from true allegiance to him.” -Howard Marshall…

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Walking in Light | Knowing Means Obeying | Week 3 24:37

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Teacher: Adam Barnett If you know God, you must obey Him and live as Jesus did. We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. - 1 John 2:3-6 Do I take God’s commands seriously and do I repent when I fall short? 1 - You must not hate your brother. Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them. – 1 John 2:9-11 2 - You must not love the world. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. – 1 John 2:15-17 Worldliness – an affection for that which is unlike God and contrary to his will. Is there anything you possess or desire that interferes with your devotion to God? 3 - You must not listen to false teaching. As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us—eternal life. I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. – 1 John 2:24-26…

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Walking in Light | Truth and Lies | Week 2 30:53

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Teacher: Dave Brown This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father— Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. —1 John 1:5-2:2 Fellowship Light versus Dark Truth versus Lie Sin, Confession, Forgiveness Atonement Consumerism/Materialism Nationalism Stewardship/Ecology Sexuality Security The people stood in the holy place and spoke the current religious cliche and supposed that everything was just fine. They were in the right place, and they said the right words—but they were not right…Religion is not a matter of arrangements or places or words, but of life and love, of mercy and obedience, of persons in a passion of faith. —Eugene Peterson God of grace and truth, in Jesus Christ you came among us as light shining in darkness. We confess that we have not welcomed the light, or trusted good news to be good. We have closed our eyes to glory in our midst, expecting little and hoping for less. Forgive our doubt and renew our hope, so that we may receive the fullness of your grace and live in the truth of Christ the Lord. Amen.…

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Walking in Light | Introduction to John | Week 1 25:15

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Teacher: Adam Barnett Who? The Apostle John What? A pastoral exhortation on truth, obedience, and love. When? AD 90-95. Where? Ephesus (and surrounding churches) Why? The truth was under attack. 1 John 1:5 (NIV) 1 John 1:5 (AMP) “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” - St. Francis…

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Disruptions 26:10

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Teacher: Leanne Benton Jeremiah 29:11 Proverbs 15:22 Psalm 33:11 The Infinite Infant Entered Our Timeline What Will We Do When God Disrupts The Plan? Proverbs 16:9 Proverbs 19:21 The Story of Christmas is Not About What We Want But What We Need What Will We Do When God Changes Our Plan, A Holy Disruption? Philippians 1:6 What Will We Do When Our Plans Come to a Place of Disruptive Disappointment? James 1:2-4 Psalm 23:? John 1:? Philippians 3:13-14 John 16:33…

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He Shall Be Called | Emmanuel | Week 5 18:07

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Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:22-23 1 - God was with us (past event). Matthew 1:18-21 2 - God is with us (present reality). God is ALWAYS with you and will NEVER leave you. Galatians 2:20 3 - God will be with us (future hope).

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He Shall Be Called | Prince of Peace | Week 4 28:09

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Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Peace is not the absence of conflict. Luke 2:12-14 Luke 2:14 1 - Peace with God. Romans 5:10 “Our sin has put wrath between us and God, and a mere ceasefire will never suffice—we are not meant to live under the cloud of an uneasy standoff with God. Instead, Jesus became incarnate, died, and rose so that believers might be adopted into God’s own family and eat at the table with him in unbroken fellowship forever.” – R.T. France 2 - Peace within. Philippians 4:6-7 3 - Peace with others. Romans 12:18 “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – St. Francis Can we agree to disagree, and focus on being loving instead of being right?…

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He Shall Be Called | Everlasting Father | Week 3 19:47

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