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The Up and Down Life of Faithful Abraham...A new beginning on Sunday too

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Another scriptural journal to possess.  We finished the Gospel of Matthew starting in March of 2024 and extended it to 106 sermons.  We covered it chapter by chapter and verse by verse and word by word.  Now we open our 1st Peter scriptural journals to do the same.  I have been through 1st and 2nd Peter a couple of times.  Once in Machais, Maine at the Machias Valley Baptist Church and another time in Wautoma, Wisconsin at the Waushara Community Church.  I will be looking forward to looking again at the last words of this disciple of Jesus. This Sunday was an " in between " sermon on the life of Abraham.  He is spoken of very highly in the New Testament as a man of faith and he is but the story to get there is fascinating.  The Bible gives us all the details in Genesis and Joshua 24:2 tells us that he started out as a worshipper of other gods.  The journey to a faith that was displayed by strict obedience takes many chapters in the book of Ge...
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A great 2 1/2 year study of the Gospel of Matthew comes to a close...Matthew 28:16-20

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  It is not just I who goes hiking but Stephanie too.  While she was hiking across the alpine tundra with these beautiful ladies from the church, I was with another fellow from the church about 1500 ft below them in the valley.  I took my binoculars and actually caught a sight of them probably 2 miles as the crow flies.  I could pick out Stephanie's bright shirt.  She has another ladies' hike set for a week from Friday with another group. Here was our baptism set up for baptism 2.0 on Sunday afternoon. Always good to have some singing when we gather. A young man named Ezra who is a seasonal worker who has called SCC his church home while in Grand Lake.   A man named Jeff who came to SCC through the weekly men's Bible group.  His testimony back to God is tremendous. We completed Matthew's gospel with looking at the Great Commission with fresh eyes.  It was ironic or providential that we baptized a couple disciples of Jesus that afternoon after...
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The Best Coffee After 4 Miles Up The Trail...Matthew 28:11-15...A different response

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 A 4 mile hike this morning up over a 1000 ft to the cafe at the Alpine Visitor's Center in the RMNP.  A great hike with a friend and we arrived just before the doors opened so the coffee was hot and fresh.  What a great way to start the day and the week with a window seat with a mountain view!  Next was a 4 mile hike back to the car. The Specimen Mountains are some of the main attractions on this hike.  We traversed up and then came back down to Milner Pass.  It was a trial run to make sure all was well for the ladies' hike on Friday down this trail.  These mountains are protected from hiking activity so the mountain sheep have a place to be roam freely.  Limitations can be annoying at times but some limitations we need to learn to appreciate and be thankful for.  That is a possible future lesson for sure. We experienced a very different reaction from those who also heard of the angel of God, the earthquake, the other eyewitnesses there (the...
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