The Best Story Ever Told!

The High Priest is Alive...pt. 1

A bit of Old Testament History:

The Jewish nation had a temple. This temple had an inner part called the Holy of Holies. No one was to enter this part of the temple, except one day per year: The Day of Atonement. This was the day that the High Priest would enter into the Holy of Holies to present a sacrifice to the Lord. This sacrifice was to atone (cleanse) the sins of the entire Jewish nation.

"To the high priest alone it was permitted to enter the holy of holies, which he did only once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, for "the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest" (Hebrews 9; 10). Wearing his gorgeous priestly vestments, he entered the temple before all the people, and then, laying them aside and assuming only his linen garments in secret, he entered the Holy of Holies alone, and made expiation, sprinkling the blood of the sin offering on the mercy seat, and offering up incense. Then resuming his splendid robes, he reappeared before the people
(Lev. 16)." (christiananswers.net)

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Hearing for the First Time

This video is from a missionary friend of mine in Paraguay:



Hearing for the first time! Did you see the look on his face when he heard his first sounds?

I can't help but think about hearing the Gospel-the message of Jesus Christ. Having grown up in a Chrisitan Culture, in a Chrisitan Home the message was always around me. What is is like to hear the message for the first time? I think the look would be similar to that of Jorge's.

What a privilege it would be to go to a part of the world where the Gospel has not been heard...and to be there when they hear it for the first time!

To read more about Jorge's story visit Passion for Paraguay.

A Divine Dance

God wants your answer to by "YES!"

A Colorful God...

The first time I saw this woman at church, I was a little surprised to see the colors in her hair; a most unusual do for a retirement community. I finally had the nerve to ask her the story behind her hair (the following is paraphrased by me)

“Last summer I was doing a Bible study and I really was impressed by how colorful God is. The theme of color kept running through my head. I was at the beauty salon and saw a hairdresser adding colors to hair and I felt that God wanted me to represent His color through my hair. So I did it, a little nervous as to what all the ‘old people’ at church would think (the ladies love it…the men not so much). A few weeks later I went to visit my grandkids who are teenagers. Both were shocked at my hair. On Sunday they asked if it was ok to go to church with hair colored like this (as they have some crazy hair too). I told them it was; they joined me for the first time at church. One is now walking with the Lord.”

Is that not the coolest story of how God can use the weirdest things to bring others to Him. I was so blessed by this woman’s story and am glad I had the guts to ask her to tell me her story. What are the stories that are around you that you might be missing out on because you don’t want to ask?
For another story of a great Christian who was asked to do something that went against his culture read Reese Howells - Intercessor

You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,

who formed the mountains by your power,
having armed yourself with strength,

who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.

Psalm 65:5-7




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Nothing is Impossible with Faith

"Faith has the genius of transforming the barely possible into actuality."

-Samuel Zwemer, missionary to the Muslim World, 1911