Merry Christmas my Band of Brothers

Merry Christmas to you ALL….

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Let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. --[There is] no peace, says the LORD, unto the wicked.

In Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ. For He (Jesus) is our peace.

It pleased [the Father] that in him should all fullness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself. -- Christ Jesus: whom God has set forth [to be] a propitiation (absolute substitute) through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, . . . that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus. -- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You - trust in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength.

Isa 27:5 Jer 29:11 Isa 48:22 Eph 2:13,14 Col 1:19,20 Ro 3:24-26 1Jo 1:9 Isa 26:4

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I appreciate and Love you all…

Robin Eckard

What's your experience...

...in Jesus' church?

Servant leadership

Flexibility or rigidity

Inclusive or exclusive

Regulating or releasing

Institutional or relational

Accessibility or secretary-kept

Acceptance or required conforming

Position-oriented or Holy Spirit sensitive

What's our end goal, a program or discipleship

Corporate calculated mind or heart-rendered passion

Or is this a bad time to ask...

Wow! A surprise party!

Click here to read the story.
My brothers and sisters are awesome.
http://kingdanprayer.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-friends-threw-me-surprise-party-you.html

www.theshackbook.com

The Shack is a Christian novel by William P. Young, published in 2007. Written in 2005, "my only goal was to get copied and bound at Kinko's in time for Christmas as a gift to my kids." Until The Shack sales soared, he was a manufacturer's representative for a technology company by day and did website design work on the side. But he had always been a writer, he says, who gave poems and stories as gifts. He wrote the book to explain his own harrowing journey through pain and misery to "light, love and transformation" in God to his six children, ages 14 to 27. Eleven years ago, Young says, he was hanging on by a thread, haunted by his history as a victim of sexual abuse, by his own adulterous affair, by a life of shame and pain, all stuffed deep in his psyche. "The shack" was what he called the ugly place inside where everything awful was hidden away. The book is about confronting evil and stripping the darkness away to reveal a loving God within, he says.

I just bought it and could not put it down until the last page. Great fiction, good for the heart!