Month: December 2025

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 1

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Surprise of the Day

When people hold back from giving to God,

they lose more than their contribution would have been.

Haggai 1:1-11 and Haggai 2:19

Fact of the Day

  • 538 BC – King Cyrus allowed his enslaved Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple and city.  They completed the foundation amid enemies.
  • 520 BC – King Darius I defended the Jews to their enemies and gave them what they needed to finish their temple.
  • 518 BC – The Jews had done nothing.  So prophet Haggai stepped in on behalf of God.
  • 516 BC – They finally  finished rebuilding their 2nd temple.

 

  • THE JEWS:  “It is not time to finish the temple”.  
  • GOD:  “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
  • THE JEWS:  “We’re earning wages, but put them in purses with holes in them.”
  • GOD:  “What you brought home, I blew away.  I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
  • THE JEWS:  “Why?”
  • GOD: “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.”
  • THE JEWS:  “We’re sorry.”
  • GOD:  “Give careful thought to your ways.  Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,

So, two years later they finished building the temple.  And what did God have to say then?

“‘From this day on I will bless you.’”

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Do you believe it, Mary? Can you? Try hard, Mary.

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My dear friends in the Lord.  Of all 70 books that I have written, the series I poured my heart and soul into the most is this one:  Soul Journey with the Real Jesus – the life of our Lord in 8 lyrical novels.   I began writing them when I was 17 years old at Harding University.  I finished when I was 60.   Forty-three years in the writing. 

Won’t you come along with me and take a journey with Jesus?  You are one of them.  Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with him as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle, too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you’ve never heard before. Then touch the soul of Jesus.  These are the stories of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense as each person in Jesus’ life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. Jesus accepts them as they are. But can they accept themselves as they are? More than that, can they accept Jesus as he is? Both God and man? Both Creator and created? Both King and servant? It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever went on a journey and struggled with Jesus.

I wrote it in present tense so you will feel like you are right there with them.  During December I will be sending you short exerpts from each of the ten chapters in book one, STAR SONG – entirely on the birth and childhood of  Jesus.  Here is the first:

Enlarge the picture so you can read the rest of this excerpt from Chapter 1 of  Star Song & the “FIRST CHRISTMAS”.

Stock up on this beautiful 270-page paperback for Christmas gifts for only $9.75.  This 1/2 price is “at cost” for me. It is MY GIFT to you.

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