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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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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 11

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

Christmas Surprise of the Day

What did Gabriel mean when he told Mary the Holy Spirit was going to overshadow her and then she would be pregnant with the Son of God taking on flesh?

  Luke 1:35 – John 1:1 & 14 – Genesis 1:2

Christmas Fact of the Day

 When you study the Holy Spirit, you find the Life-Giver (or re-Giver), the Animator, the Mover, the Implementor of  the Mind of God’s will.  

The Greek word translated in Luke as OVERSHADOW is the same Hebrew word translated in Genesis 1:2 as HOVER.  The same thing happened when God created the earth as when God came to Mary’s womb.  

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 10

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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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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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Give yourself for Christmas

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The scripture for today, December 24 (12/24), is Luke 12:24 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

0000-BK 1-StarSong-Cover-new-Medium“Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!”

In many nations right now, things are financially strained. Luxuries? No. To be able to live until tomorrow? Yes.

Which is more valuable? To impress men or impress God? A life dedicated to things impresses men. A life dedicated to doing good things impresses God.

I know of a group of believers in Jesus recently in an African country who had to flee soldiers who were after Christians. They had to run immediately upon sight of the soldiers. No time to pack anything. Just run.  Escape. Run. Escape. 

To get to true safety, they had to walk a hundred miles. What did they eat?  Grass. Leaves from bushes. Tree roots. But they made it. They made it to safety and the loving, protective arms of other Christians.

Today, instead of a luxury, can you send that money to people in parts of the world who are struggling to stay alive? Struggling to stay safe because they are Christians?

Consider the ravens.


PS ~ Those of you with children, and you cannot get them much for Christmas: Write IOU’s to them and put each one in a box. Wrap each with typing paper if you don’t have Christmas paper. And with a red or green crayon, draw a ribbon on top. What’s on the IOU’s? “One hour of coloring with you.” “One hour of playing ball with you.” “Three hours of hiking with you.” “Two hours of baking cookies with you.” Give yourself for Christmas!

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