mossbury
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Registered: 2001-03-28
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Hello William,
Wednesday, December 26, 2001, 4:01:33 AM, you wrote:
>> Happy Holidays to ALL!!!
WFM> And to you and yours as well. Today I spent the afternoon at the home of WFM> good friends and enjoyed wonderful fellowship and wonderful food amid WFM> some small measure of opulance. After that, some other friends and I met WFM> at our church, where there is plenty---and it shows, then loaded some WFM> electronic instrumentation into a van and the trunk of my car and headed WFM> downtown to a basement, where there is no opulance, no paneling, and WFM> where the vents don't quite fit, there is addiction, desperation and WFM> broken men, but where there is warmth, love, and the Good News is WFM> shared. We never unpacked the instrumentation we brought along. WFM> There was a piano there that sounded fairly good, so the pianist among WFM> us used that instead. In the church we attend, we have possibly the WFM> finest, most Biblically faithful preaching in the entire nation. In the WFM> basement tonight there was only a seminary student who struggled with WFM> his ideas and with his nerves. More of the Gospel was received in that WFM> basement than in our church. We have a good church. In fact in human WFM> terms we have an extrememly good church. The elders perform due WFM> diligence to ensure that anyone who is actually becoming a member is a WFM> believer. The docrine is as sound as any church I've ever known, and the WFM> Good News is preached strongly, solidly, and fervently. But the people WFM> there are not desperate. There is a creeping tendancy to think that they WFM> are "good enough". The men in that basement know differently, so God can WFM> reach them far more easily than He can reach anyone uptown. It is a WFM> humbling place because it shows me where I could be at any moment. God WFM> is my supply, my fortress, and my truest love. This I must not forget: WFM> That I am nothing, and He is everything; for He created me. The air I WFM> breathe is as the very breath from His great mouth. The water I drink is WFM> the flowing of His undying love. The food I eat grows at His command. WFM> He is the centerpost that keeps my tent erect. Remove Him and I only WFM> flail in the dark, trapped within my own sin. He is my God, my fortress WFM> and my love. He is Jesus Christ the Lord, and today I celebrate the gift WFM> of His human birth because He came to die for me. Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Wonderful to hear the 'Good News' Happy Birthday Jesus!
WFM> Psalms 62:6 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I WFM> will not be shaken.
-- Best regards, Steven mailto:mossbury@btinternet.com
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