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1 Corinthians 12:12-21,26,27 E Pluribus Unum! The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body.  So it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free— and we were all given the one […]

Isaiah 62:1-5 From Desolate to Delight! For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.  The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the […]

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Jesus of Nazareth Becomes Jesus the Christ! The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ.  John answered them all, “I baptize you with water.  But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.  He will baptize […]

Luke 2:21 Who Are You? On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived. (NIV1984) Dear fellow worshipers of the Child of Bethlehem, There is a story about a 13-year-old orphan who was about to be adopted.  He had been abandoned as […]

John 1:1-14 God’s Christmas Presence to You In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The light […]