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Notice the always blind man said: “When I dream I don’t see anything, because my subconscious doesn’t know how to see, I don’t see in my dreams…”

This kind of leads you in to what some call Jesus’s double miracle:

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Almost every one of us can be uniquely identified by 3 words that form our full name.

What name identifies our local Church Building? ...

When we can, we like to hit current events.  The New York Times and other news agencies have recently announced that Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi have authorized Nitrogen gas for Death Row executions, as the previous drugs are being harder to find.  

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You might have heard about Art imitating life.  I have  some video clips that an expert in the art-world believes are a representation of modern art…

Thought it might be interesting to dig into some phrases, that I doubt people know the meaning of. 

Let’s start with: "goodbye", it turns out this phrase comes from: " God Be With You".  Nice to know this one has a great origin and a better meaning than I knew.

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In fact British laboratories have created over 150 human-animal embryos.  

Since Darwin Evolution believes believe humans are just another animal they have no ethical objections to mixing animals and humans.

But if we go back to the Bible:

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We are known by our words. They reveal what's on our mind and in our hearts. They reveal whether we are self-centered or other-centered, humble or proud, honest or dishonest, gentle or harsh. As such, it's said that we ought to "weigh our words," but better still, we ought to weigh our thoughts that give rise to our words.

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We see a beautiful view of the planets.  However, I think most of us know that the distances there are not realistic, but did you know HOW unrealistic?

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In my last sermon that you can find here, we talked about Social Media.  That it isn’t new, but something that has resurfaced from day of old. Paul is recognized as the most successful user of Social Media the world has ever seen.

Have you heard of the American hero Bass Reeves?

In 1838 Bass Reeves was born into slavery in Arkansas to Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves.  His master refused to let him learn to read and write, but did teach him to shoot so he could serve as a bodyguard and hunt food.  He believed knowledge was much more dangerous than a firearm. 

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As this is published on August 21st 2017, an event will happen that hasn’t happened in the US for over a century ...

Proverbs 1:7 (NASB)

Just by being interested enough to read this devotion, I would believe you fear the lord and are looking for knowledge.  

I thought it might be interesting to look at the quadrant of knowledge and how we can match up scripture.

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Luke 4:1-7 (NASB)

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

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February 7th marked the 50th Superbowl.  While not my cup of tea, I am sure many of you reading this watched it, if not for the game itself, for the commercials.  

In this case, it is now a infamous commercial...

So a long time ago, Eric in our church told me about this old British Science Fiction show called Doctor Who.

I managed to find a few reruns on PBC and enjoyed them after church back when I lived in Hector...

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Take a look at this normal looking glass.  In fact, go grab a normal drinking glass.

For your glass, or the one in the picture, would you say it is taller than its circumference?

The circumference is the distance around the circle, in this case the circle made by the top of the glass.

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As of 2015 if you buy a John Deere tractor, you do not own it.  You only have an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate said vehicle.

You are not supposed to do any repairs yourself, only use authorized John Deere service representatives.

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In 1925 King Tutankhamun’s tomb was found intact.  This is rare, since treasure hunters had broken into most other tombs in Egypt for the treasures. 

Even the bodies were taken.   Why?

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ICE/ISEE-3 was launched in 1978.

It was the first spacecraft to be placed at the L1 point in orbit of Earth which let us measure solar and geomagnetic phenomena,

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Potwin Kansas, a small town near Wichita there is a little 360 acre farm. 

It has been owned by the Voglemen family for over 100 years.  Joyce, 82 now rents out the property.  She remembers when the first bathroom was put in.  She wrote Sunday school lessons from this house.  The farm contains a pasture, orchard, two barns and an old two-story house. 

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