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Posted on 03/10/2019 5:02:03 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Bible in a Year: Deuteronomy 14–16; Mark 12:28–44
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Isaiah 44:22 Today's Scripture & Insight:
When he invented the pencil eraser, British engineer Edward Nairne was reaching instead for a piece of bread. Crusts of bread were used then, in 1770, to erase marks on paper. Picking up a piece of latex rubber by mistake, Nairne found it erased his error, leaving rubberized “crumbs” easily swept away by hand.
With us too the worst errors of our lives can be swept away. It’s the Lord—the Bread of Life—who cleans them with His own life, promising never to remember our sins. “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake,” says Isaiah 43:25, “and remembers your sins no more.”
This can seem to be a remarkable fix—and not deserved. For many, it’s hard to believe our past sins can be swept away by God “like the morning mist.” Does God, who knows everything, forget them so easily?
That’s exactly what God does when we accept Jesus as our Savior. Choosing to forgive our sins and to “[remember them] no more,” our heavenly Father frees us to move forward. No longer dragged down by past wrongs, we’re free of debris and cleaned up to serve, now and forever.
Yes, consequences may remain. But God sweeps sin itself away, inviting us to return to Him for our clean new life. There’s no better way to be swept away.
What things from your past do you have trouble forgetting? Ask God to help you take Him at His word.
Thanks for honoring tonight’s Hero, Kathy!
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Hope you got lots of rest today!!
Hi there, Pro...is your snow still melting?
We hit 40 again today...lots of folks out chipping ice off their driveways.
Beautiful sunny weather and the snow is starting a slow melt. We're suppose to warm up mid week so hopefully the melting will continue.
Rest is all I have been getting, I have to slowly get back to work.
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...more melting for you? Hope your berm starts melting at a goodly rate.
We are up to low 40s again today and a couple spots on the street in front of the house are showing pavement.
Yes, but the key word is slowly. d:o)
Low 40’s today too!
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Met this funny WWII guy today, James Clayton, He must be old as dirt, but God Bless Him, he came up here for his 85 year old little sisters Birthday.
We fed him and watered him and thanked him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=yzmo0F_T8iU
Jeremy Phifer band was a big old bust last night, the band was good but no audience out in the cornfield.
Rus maybe we need Rus Seager down here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=8ZogzOp_9TY
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Good to see you back in the saddle Mayor
Conspicious gallantry and intredipisnous is Code for sneakin around.
God Bless Them all, get in get out... slip the wire
Good evening, Luv...so many heroes. We salute them!
They cut Becca loose Friday, She feeds me, I feed Ester.
Scotty will be the last man standing, time to slip the wire, Lord I don’t want the Black Spot
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Jack C. Montgomery (July 23, 1917 – June 11, 2002) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
crawled up a ditch to within hand grenade range of the enemy. Then climbing boldly onto a little mound, he fired his rifle and threw his grenades so accurately that he killed 8 of the enemy and captured the remaining 4. Returning to his platoon, he called for artillery fire on a house, in and around which he suspected that the majority of the enemy had entrenched themselves. Arming himself with a carbine, he proceeded along the shallow ditch, as withering fire from the riflemen and machinegunners in the second position was concentrated on him. He attacked this position with such fury that 7 of the enemy surrendered to him, and both machineguns were silenced. Three German dead were found in the vicinity later that morning. 1st Lt. Montgomery continued boldly toward the house, 300 yards from his platoon position. It was now daylight, and the enemy observation was excellent across the flat open terrain which led to 1st Lt. Montgomery's objective. When the artillery barrage had lifted, 1st Lt. Montgomery ran fearlessly toward the strongly defended position. As the enemy started streaming out of the house, 1st Lt. Montgomery, unafraid of treacherous snipers, exposed himself daringly to assemble the surrendering enemy and send them to the rear. His fearless, aggressive, and intrepid actions that morning, accounted for a total of 11 enemy dead, 32 prisoners, and an unknown number of wounded. That night, while aiding an adjacent unit to repulse a counterattack, he was struck by mortar fragments and seriously wounded. The selflessness and courage exhibited by 1st Lt. Montgomery in alone attacking 3 strong enemy positions inspired his men to a degree beyond estimation.