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  Newsletter January 2020   Robert Lindenberger 3325 3rd Avenue Mims, FL 32754 321-368-7184 Expas65@yahoo.com                    God is good all the time; all the time, God is good! Amen?   BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT   From Shepherds Press New gifts for you the day after Christmas does not mark the end of gift-giving. Each morning the gift of Christ awaits. Each morning new guests low from the hand of your Savior. No, these new guests may not come wrapped in special paper. Sometimes the gifts may not even look like anything special. But you have the promises of God that he will give you new ways to know him more deeply each day.       God is relentless in his pursuit of bringing joy to your needy soul. It cannot be out given. No matter what the circumstances you face, the unfailing love of God is constant. This love transcends the difficu...

     SEPTEMBER 2020  NEWSLETTER  Robert Lindenberger 3325 3 rd Ave. Mims Florida 32754 321 368 7184 expas65@yahoo.com     God is good all the time; all the time, God is good! Amen? Hello, my name is Bob, God is good all the time; all the time, God is good!, Lindenberger. If you’re new to the newsletter, I will give you a quick introduction. I am the baby of a family of eight. Sadly, this family is down to four. I was five years old when my brothers and my sister’s husbands went off to war. So, much of my boyhood was spent around the dining room table, watching my sisters writing letters. So, doing a newsletter is my way of keeping in touch and telling how God is blessing me in my time of warfare.   I do have good news to share. My sister, Mary Gladys, has finally retired, a miracle in disguise.   Mary going to work was an inspiration for me to keep on keeping doing what I had to do in my life. “Each and every one of us ...

Kathleen Berg Spencer 13 mins  ·  Sacrifice…Sanctified Obedience-by: Kathleen Spencer (Teacher Helps Magazine 1999) I needed to preach it to myself this morning. Our text this morning is found in the book of Romans chapter 12. As the pastor read this old and familiar passage of scripture, I was compelled to ask myself what I really knew about sacrifice. I knew that throughout the Bible that sacrifice and sacrifices played an important role. But clearly, this morning’s text was saying that not only was I required to make sacrifices, but that I was to become a sacrifice. I needed to know more, much more. 1. The first sacrifices were animals, given on our behalf. In the Old Testament God demanded that sacrifices be made by priests who had been set apart, “sanctified”, entirely for God. The blood of an animal had to be spilled. Once a year, on the Day of Atonement the priest would take a goat or heifer that was the best of the flock and kill it, spilling its blood on the altar. Be...

Kathleen Berg Spencer  · My Journey Through the Wilderness (to build someone’s faith) I’ve thought about how God calls us the “apple of his eye” in Zechariah 2:8. People who own orchards have to take the time to look over the trees, free them of insects and protect them from blight as any one of those things could destroy the fruit. When the apples are ready to be picked the owners want us to pick the choicest apples. When God says that we are the “apple of His eye” he is saying that we are his dearest treasure. He does everything that he can to protect us from the things that would destroy us or bring blight to us spiritually. We are still the “apple of God’s eye” even when we are going through very difficult times in our lives and it feels like God is boiling us, mashing us, and turning us into applesauce. Often we feel like we’ve been forsaken and left to wander on our own in the wilderness. I discovered though God never does evil to bring good that He does take the hard thing...

              We must overcome Satan because the Bible makes it clear: We’re in a battle. It’s a battle we can’t escape with an Enemy we can’t see. As long as we confess Jesus as Lord and have the Spirit of God within us, Satan will do everything he can to destroy our faith. That’s why we’re told to “stand firm” against his schemes (Ephesians 6:13). So how do we fight? How do we overcome Satan’s attacks? At the end of his letter to the Ephesians, Paul lists out seven pieces of spiritual armor for us to take up in the battle against Satan. As a kid, I thought the spiritual armor were these mysterious weapons used to ward off demons, like magic amulets or Harry Potter spells. But I’ve come to learn that when Paul talks about the spiritual armor, he’s simply giving us ways to apply the gospel to our lives. Putting on the armor of God is another way of saying we should clothe ourselves in the gospel. Just as a soldier’s entire body is covered with ar...