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99c. But in heaven, God rises from his throne, raises his holy hand, and shouts, “Yes!”

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Jesus has been born. Moments ago. Joseph, the other father, squats on the scattered hay next to mother and baby. All is now quiet.

But in heaven, Jehovah God rises from his throne, raises his holy hand in triumph, and shouts, “Yes!” A yes that resounds through the universe and beyond. The angels pat each other on the back and burst out in a shout of triumph that shoots through the heavens and slides down to the countryside outside of the little town of Bethlehem.

An insignificant couple. A dirty stable. Smelly. Dingy. Cobwebs. Silence. Divine silence. Wonder. Awe. Overwhelming astonishment. Overpowering love.

99 CENTS. The magi are puzzled when they enter Palestine. No excitement, no parades, no…

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     The magi, having traveled all the way from Parthia in the east, are puzzled when they finally  cross the border. Life as usual in Palestine.  No excitement. No parades.  No banners.  The Jews stare at the long caravan of regal magi on plumed camels with silk saddles, wondering why these rich and stately foreigners are in their country….

     The magi arrive at Bethlehem about midnight. They have found it.  “Well, this is it, gentlemen,” Yasib says under his breath. “The King of all kings. The Priest of all priests. The one predicted centuries ago by Magi Daniel.”

              Hey, you magi, or whatever you unbelievers call yourselves. You’re not wanted here. This is our religion. Don’t go changing everything. You’ve got it all wrong.

(Excerpt from STAR SONG)

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Joseph is bleeding. From the broken promise. The broken heart. The broken life.

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Joseph sinks down to the floor with his etched picture of Mary. All broken. Crushed. Cut to the heart. Unhealable. Inconsolable. Betrayed with the ultimate betrayal.

Sprawling completely prostrate now, Joseph hits his fist against the floor. He is bleeding. Bleeding from the broken pottery. Bleeding from the broken promise. The broken heart. The broken life. “Oh, Mary… Oh, God…” he groans

(Excerpt from “The Other Father” chap 3 of STAR SONG)

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 10

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

Christmas Oops of the Day

When Joseph and Mary arrived at Bethlehem, she was about to deliver, but all the inns were full.  

Luke 2:7

Christmas Fact of the Day 

No! Luke did  not say “all  innS  were”.   He  said  “THE  INN WAS.”   There was only one inn in Bethlehem!

This little tidbit in grammar can make a lot of difference when we view the panic Joseph must have been feeling that night.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 9

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

Christmas Oops of the Day

Joseph was a decent man, so decided not to tell all their friends the wedding was off, but to save Mary the embarrassment and just divorce her secretly.  Besides, it would give Mary time to get out of town,  have her baby somewhere else, give it away, and return home still with her pride and resume her life as it had been, sans Joseph.

Matthew 1:19 and Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Christmas Fact of the Day 

No!  Joseph was not just saving Mary from being embarrassed .  He was saving her from being killed!

The Law of Moses, under which they lived, said that a woman who was not a virgin when married could be publicly exposed by her newly betrothed husband.  Then she was to be stoned to death at the door of her father and mother.

True, we today who believe the Bible believe she was still a virgin.  But her pregnancy was “proof” to the villagers and the world that she had committed adultery.  

Can you imagine the taunts that Joseph endured by marrying a woman already pregnant?  What a strong and brave man he was.  More tomorrow.

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The two women fall into each other’s arms, locked in love, faith, and ultimate submission to holiness.

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My dear friends in the Lord, I’d like to share with you how this book – STAR SONG – came about . When I was seventeen years old at Harding College in 1958 I wrote some of which you will read in this book. When I showed it to some of my girlfriends, they said I should write the entire life of Christ. I told them I was not old enough and had not experienced enough of life yet. But I promised I would write it when I was sixty.

Through the years, I added things and changed things, first on my portable Royal typewriter, then an electric typewriter, and finally my “amazing” Selectric typewriter. And the pages had smudges where I had erased and replaced words here and there and became aged and brittle. Much of what you will read now of Mary’s conversations with Gabriel, her family, and Elizabeth I wrote when I was seventeen. Also, most of what you will read from the time Jesus left the fortress with his cross to his last breath I wrote when I was seventeen.

Throughout the years, my growing number of pages were stored in closets, bottom drawers, and, finally, file cabinets as I moved through life from one place to another.  I even sometimes separated parts of them into inspirational pamphlets which I printed with those ditto machines with their purple ink and later on mimeograph machines, getting ink all over my hands and clothes. Yet, all through those forty-three years, I remembered my promise made in my dormitory room so long ago when we were all so young.

Then, when I was fifty-nine, having lived and experienced far more during those years than I had really desired, I sat down to finish writing my entire life of Christ. I cannot recall whether it was during the summer or winter months when I finished it, but it was in the year 2000. I had kept my promise.

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”.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 24

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

Surprise of the Day

Events surrounding the birth of Jesus were foretold 800 years before he was born.

 Joel 2:28  –  Luke 2:35-38  – Matthew 2:10-12  – Luke 2:8-14 

Fact of the Day 

“Sons and daughters will prophecy” – SIMEON and ANNA prophecied about Jesus’ future when Mary and Joseph took him to the temple for a special ceremony on his 8th day.

“Old men will dream dreams” – the WISE MEN (MAGI) from the east were warned by God in a dream that Herod was looking for baby Jesus to kill him, so to return home a different way.  

“Young men will see visions” – JOSEPH saw a vision of Gabriel telling him that Mary’s pregnancy was miraculous.  The night Jesus was born, the SHEPHERDS saw a vision of angels appearing in the sky and announcing Jesus’s birth.

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Scripture for Tuesday, July 18 (7/18)

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The scripture for today, July 18(7/18), is Acts 7:18 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

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“Then another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, became ruler of Egypt.”

Does God really answer prayers? When the Jews first arrived in Egypt, they received “royal treatment” because they were relatives of “Prime Minister” Joseph. Then he died, but his relatives stayed. Eventually, they were resented, then feared, then made slaves of the Egyptians.

For the following 400 years, the Jews prayed for God to release them from their slavery. Generation after generation died believing that God does not answer prayers.

But God saw the big picture. He saw that the 70 relatives of Joseph who originally went to Egypt would become over three million through the next four centuries. Then and only then would they be large enough to begin a new nation ~ the Jewish nation. In Egypt during those centuries, they were in a form of “protective custody”.

Are you frustrated and confused because God is seemingly not answering some very important prayers? Perhaps you are part of a bigger picture that God knows about. Perhaps your job is to stay where you are and just keep hanging on.

Are you up to the task God has assigned to you?

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Imagine being told by God to guard His Son in a violent world until he is grown.
How does Joseph choose a city in strange Egypt to hide 2-year-old Jesus from Herod’s spies? Does he dare take 4-year-old Jesus to the temple where now-dead Herod’s son slaughters thousands?

How can Joseph protect Jesus with all the skirmishes and killing on roads everywhere with dozens vying to take over as king?

How does Joseph handle the persecution in Nazareth by people who could count and knew Mary was pregnant before marrying Joseph?

What does Joseph do with Jesus in Nazareth, just three miles from Sepphoris, hotbed of zealot protesters, when a Roman legate burns the city and crucifies 2000 more zealots in Jerusalem?

In what ways does Joseph teach Jesus how to be a skilled carpenter in sometimes dangerous situations, and avoid being mauled in the mountains when they cut trees for lumber?

How many times, when Jesus was in danger did Joseph cry out, “God, help me protect our Son!”?

(NOTE: A year before Jesus’ death, he was rejected in Nazareth where they said, “Isn’t this the son of the carpenter?” In present tense.)