JANUARY 2025 NEWSLETTER

 JANUARY 2025 NEWSLETTER

ROBERT LINDENBERGER

405 INDIAN RIVER AVE.  504

TITUSVILLE, FL 32796

321-368-7184

expas65@yahoo.com


HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025.


God is good all the time; all the time, God is good!  Amen?

            Happy New Year to all our Family and Friends.  Wishing you all A Bright, Happy, Healthy, & Prosperous New 2025

             As we stand on the brink of a brand new year, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on the past year and express our gratitude to God.  We have so much to be thankful for.  Let us examine our lives and ask Jesus if He is satisfied with us.  All the little blessings we often take for granted have been made possible by His grace this past year. 

            Jesus’ blood, shed on Calvary, has paid for our past, present, and future sins.  When He declared, “It is finished,” His mission was complete.  Today, Jesus extends His free gift of salvation to all who will receive it, as stated in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

            God desires that none should perish, but all may have everlasting life with Him forever.  As Jesus speaks to us during this season, may we not be too busy to hear His voice; instead, let us be quiet enough to listen and obey Him. Let us stay close to our Lord Jesus and allow Him to guide us.  May we live in a way that pleases our Lord and Savior.  He gave His Son as the greatest gift to the world.  Let us follow Him and pray for the sick, grieving, and those who are hurting.

-                                                                                                           -B. W. Green © 2024                                                                             

            As this new year begins, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has encouraged me.  Each greeting, prayer, and act of kindness has meant so much to me.  Thank you for being a part of my life. 

             I received a lot of responses to my December Newsletter.  One dear person wrote:  “I love your newsletters,  but tell us more about you.”  OK,  I’ll tell y’all about my Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.  Before I start, let me tell you that Christmas is a trigger for me.  What’s a trigger, Bob?  When you have a loved one go home before you, you grieve.  You grieve, cry, and remember the good times you had together.  This grief does lessen in time, but it never goes away.  Sometimes, you are reminded of the good times.  This is a trigger.  So, Christmas is a trigger for me.  I remember how we loved Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, which made me cry, but ALWAYS, my Lord and Savior comforted me.  

            Let me share my Christmas’  passed: my son, Danny, was one year old, and on Christmas Eve, his mother and I read the Christmas story and opened one present that night.  Christmas morning, the Christmas story was read one more time, and Danny opened all of the presents that Santa Claus had brought.  This was our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.  Until then, he was about seven.  One day, when we were fishing, Danny said, “Daddy, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but I don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore.  But I do like the Christmas story and getting gifts.”  So, we continued this routine until he graduated high school and moved out.

           Life is full of changes.  After Danny moved out on his own, my life changed.  Danny’s mother moved to Ohio.  I am completely alone, except for the dog.  That Christmas Eve I will never forget.  I was sitting in my chair watching TV when the dog started barking, and in came Danny and his girlfriend, as well as my foster son, Ted, and his girlfriend.  “We come to have a Christmas Eve party with you, Dad.  Will you read us the Christmas story?


            Life is full of changes.  I had a new wife, two daughters, and a son.  We started our life together by having our Christmas Eve party and Christmas dinner the next morning.

             Those are the memories.  Marian went home with the Lord ten years ago, and Danny went home seven years ago.  I have been alone every Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but I still celebrate my Savior’s birthday on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

             Let me share my Christmas Eve this year: a wonderful good couple.  I call them my adopted family; they took me to church and then to their house for a party.  It was a wonderful good time.  I came home to an empty apartment but was happy (blessed).  Jesus was here, and we had a party.  Listen:


Isaiah 9:6.  For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

            Our culture has become so secularized.  There are many people who don’t know who Jesus truly is.  Some people even see Jesus as offensive or controversial.  Consider celebrating Christmas by maintaining the genuine wine that you of Christ.

            But who is Jesus to you?  And how, in the midst of all the busyness, loneliness, religiousness, and happiness that swirls out the holidays, will you celebrate the real meaning of Christmas this year?


            John 1:4 says, “In [Jesus] was life, and that life was the light of men.”  John the Baptist saw Jesus and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29).

            Who is Jesus?  He is God wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  He is the Creator who became your Savior.  Celebrate Him.  He is the reason for the season.  Celebrate Jesus!

                – – Anne Graham Lotz, FIXING MY EYES ON JESUS, December 24


  


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